The Sunbeam (1912)
1912 · Silent film · 15 min · dir. D.W. Griffith
A RAY OF HOPE IN THE TENEMENTS OF AN AMERICAN CITY
- Drama
- Comedy
Synopsis
Set in a tenement boarding house, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks. Believing the bachelor perpetrated one particular prank, the spinster woman enters his room to confront him. She is followed by a neighbor child. Meanwhile, the other children have stolen a scarlet fever quarantine sign and posted it on the bachelor's door. The police, unaware that the quarentine sign is a prank, enforce the…
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Details
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Writer
- George Hennessy
- Cinematography
- Billy Bitzer
- Studio
- American Mutoscope & Biograph
- Released
- 1912-02-26
- Running time
- 15 minutes
Cast & crew
D.W. Griffith Director
Ynez Seabury
Kate Bruce
Claire McDowell
Dell Henderson
Charles Hill Mailes
Priscilla Dean
Gladys Egan
Edna Foster
