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A Cry for Help

A Cry for Help

Drama

17m

December 23, 1912 (112 years ago)

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.

ActorAge thenAge now
Lionel Barrymore

Lionel Barrymore

The Tramp

Birthday: April 28, 1878

34 November 15, 1954 (76)
Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish

The Maid

Birthday: October 14, 1893

19 February 27, 1993 (99)
Walter Miller

Walter Miller

The Doctor

Birthday: March 9, 1892

20 March 30, 1940 (48)
Harry Carey

Harry Carey

The Thief

Birthday: January 16, 1878

34 September 21, 1947 (69)
Claire McDowell

Claire McDowell

The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient

Birthday: October 31, 1877

35 October 23, 1966 (88)
Robert Harron

Robert Harron

Witness to Accident

Birthday: April 12, 1893

19 September 5, 1920 (27)
Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Gish

Witness to Accident

Birthday: March 9, 1898

14 June 4, 1968 (70)
Christy Cabanne

Christy Cabanne

Witness to Accident

Birthday: April 15, 1888

24 October 15, 1950 (62)
John T. Dillon

John T. Dillon

Policeman / Witness to Accident

Birthday: June 19, 1876

36 December 29, 1937 (61)
Alfred Paget

Alfred Paget

Policeman

Birthday: June 2, 1879

33 October 8, 1919 (40)