The Hunchback (1914)
"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken, he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything, and in consequence, the people with whom he boards, order him out. Tired and despairing, he gets, unobserved, into a freight car, and is carried to a western mining town. There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl. An accident renders the little girl fatherless, and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood. As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward, but when he tells her of his love, he finds that it is not returned. The girl falls in love with a young prospector, and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life, and then weakens in his resolve. Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die.
- Date of release
- 1914-04-12
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Christy Cabanne
Casting
- F.A. Turner — A Hunchback Peddler
- Lillian Gish — The Orphan - as an Adult
- William Garwood — Tom Carson - a Young Prospector
- Tom Haverly — The Father
- Edna Mae Wilson — The Orphan - as a Child
Interesting facts
The Hunchback is a 1914 American silent short drama film directed by W. Christy Cabanne and written by Anita Loos.
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