
A Cry for Help
Drama
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.
Top Cast


Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore
The Tramp
Lionel Barrymore
The Tramp


Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
The Maid
Lillian Gish
The Maid


Walter Miller
Walter Miller
The Doctor
Walter Miller
The Doctor


Harry Carey
Harry Carey
The Thief
Harry Carey
The Thief


Claire McDowell
Claire McDowell
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
Claire McDowell
The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient


Robert Harron
Robert Harron
Witness to Accident
Robert Harron
Witness to Accident


Dorothy Gish
Dorothy Gish
Witness to Accident
Dorothy Gish
Witness to Accident


Christy Cabanne
Christy Cabanne
Witness to Accident
Christy Cabanne
Witness to Accident
John T. Dillon
John T. Dillon
Policeman / Witness to Accident
John T. Dillon
Policeman / Witness to Accident


Alfred Paget
Alfred Paget
Policeman
Alfred Paget
Policeman
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