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 her mother good-bye, he realizes that he loves his little preserver and promises to return worthy of her love and confidence. They plight their troth with their first kiss and a heart shaped locket, which Ruth wears, she breaking it in two, giving George one side while she retains the other, which symbolized the reunion of their hearts with his return. George is fortunate to strike the West in the midst of a boom, and being an affable, bright chap, meets with success, and is soon a favorite with his employers. His life here up to this is without a blemish, but has he strength? We shall see, for as gold is tested by the fire, so a man is by temptation, and George's trial comes with the persuasion to take a drink. At first he holds out against it, but at last yields, and that drink was his undoing. Once more the craving for liquor is induced and his promise to his little sweetheart in the East is forgotten, he falls an easy victim of a Mexican girl, who pretends to love him, assuming him a…
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Details
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Writer
- D.W. Griffith
- Cinematography
- Billy Bitzer
- Studio
- American Mutoscope & Biograph
- Released
- 1909-09-16
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Silent Films, Feature Films
Cast & crew
D.W. Griffith Director
Frank Powell
Mary Pickford
Kate Bruce
Robert Harron
Dell Henderson
Arthur V. Johnson
James Kirkwood
Marion Leonard
