The Unwelcome Guest (1913)
1913 · Silent film · 2 min · dir. D.W. Griffith
- Drama
Synopsis
Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping trunk. After her death, her husband, believing himself penniless, has to leave their old home and move in with his son's family, where he's treated with no respect or consideration. Also on the scene is a newly-hired kindly young housekeeper. She and the old gentleman become close friends and eventually run away together (taking the old shipping trunk…
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Details
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Writer
- George Hennessy
- Cinematography
- Billy Bitzer
- Studio
- American Mutoscope & Biograph
- Released
- 1913-03-15
- Running time
- 2 minutes
Cast & crew
D.W. Griffith Director
Mary Pickford
W. Chrystie Miller
Charles Hill Mailes
Claire McDowell
Jack Pickford
Elmer Booth
Kate Bruce
Harry Carey
