A Cry for Help (1912)
Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
- Date of release
- 1912-12-23
- Runtime
- 17m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
Casting
- Lionel Barrymore — The Tramp
- Lillian Gish — The Maid
- Walter Miller — The Doctor
- Harry Carey — The Thief
- Claire McDowell — The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
- Robert Harron — Witness to Accident
- Dorothy Gish — Witness to Accident
- Christy Cabanne — Witness to Accident
- John T. Dillon — Policeman / Witness to Accident
- Alfred Paget — Policeman
Interesting facts
A Cry for Help is a 1912 American drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.
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