A Cry for Help

Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.

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17 min

Cast

Lionel Barrymore

as The Tramp

Lillian Gish

as The Maid

Walter Miller

as The Doctor

Harry Carey

as The Thief

Claire McDowell

as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient

Robert Harron

as Witness to Accident

Dorothy Gish

as Witness to Accident

Christy Cabanne

as Witness to Accident

John T. Dillon

as Policeman / Witness to Accident

Alfred Paget

as Policeman

Director

D.W. Griffith