A Cry for Help
movie

Released December 23, 1912
Genres:
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.
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
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John T. Dillon
as
Policeman / Witness to Accident

Alfred Paget
as
Policeman
