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The Broken Locket (1909)

1909 · Silent film · 13 min · dir. D.W. Griffith

  • Drama

Synopsis

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Providence always bestows in the person of pretty little Ruth King, who had secretly loved George since their childhood days. She succeeds in persuading him from his reckless life, and he determines to cut off from his old loose companions by going out West and making a man of himself. Bidding Ruth and…

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Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
D.W. Griffith
Cinematography
Billy Bitzer
Studio
American Mutoscope & Biograph
Released
1909-09-16
Running time
13 minutes

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