The Miser's Heart (1911)
A FABLE OF GREED, PERIL & REGENERATION
Thieves decide to steal the money an old miser has hidden away. He refuses to open the safe for them, so they threaten to kill a little girl who lives in his building.
- Date of release
- 1911-11-20
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 16m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
Casting
- Adolph Lestina — The Miser
- Ynez Seabury — Little Kathy
- Kate Toncray — Little Kathy's Mother
- Edward Dillon — Jules, an Impoverished Thief
- Robert Harron — Bakery Assistant
- Wilfred Lucas — First Crook
- Charles Hill Mailes — Second Crook
- William J. Butler — Policeman
- Donald Crisp — Policeman
- Blanche Sweet — Neighbor
- Linda Arvidson — Kathy's Mother
- Lionel Barrymore — Jules - the Thief
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Fort Lee
The Miser's Heart is a 1911 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Biograph Company. It stars Ynez Seabury as a child who befriends a miser and a thief. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century. A print of the film survives.
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