A Cry for Help

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Release date: December 23, 1912
Duration: 17 minutes
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Overview

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.

Starring

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Lionel Barrymore
The Tramp
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Lillian Gish
The Maid
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Walter Miller
The Doctor
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Harry Carey
The Thief
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Claire McDowell
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient