What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911)

1911 · Silent film · 13 min · dir. D.W. Griffith

• Drama

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Synopsis

An elderly carpenter is told by a doctor that his wife is seriously ill. Soon afterwards, an insensitive shop foreman lays him off from his job because of his age. Unable to find work, and with his wife's condition getting worse, he soon becomes desperate.

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Details

Director

D.W. Griffith

Studio

American Mutoscope & Biograph

Released

1911-02-13

Running time

13 minutes

Cast & crew

• D.W. Griffith Director
• W. Chrystie Miller
• Claire McDowell
• Adolph Lestina
• George Nichols
• Donald Crisp
• Wilfred Lucas
• Alfred Paget
• Charles West

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