Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908)

  • NR
  • 06/26/1908 (US)
  • Drama
  • 12m

Overview

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.

Stanner E.V. Taylor

Director

D.W. Griffith

Writer

Will Carleton

Story

Cast

Florence Auer's headshot

Florence Auer

Old Woman
Edward Dillon's headshot

Edward Dillon

Son
Wallace McCutcheon Jr.'s headshot

Wallace McCutcheon Jr.

Anthony O'Sullivan's headshot

Anthony O'Sullivan

Bailiff
Mack Sennett's headshot

Mack Sennett

Bartender
Robert G. Vignola's headshot

Robert G. Vignola

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