The Mother and the Law
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D. W. Griffith
Mae Marsh
Robert Harron
Miriam Cooper
Vera Lewis
Sam De Grasse
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Wallflower Mary Jenkins, whose brother owns a prosperous mill, is easily seduced by reformers into leading their group. To provide their funds, Jenkins cuts his workers' wages. Using machine guns, the militia and company guards quell the resultant strike, leaving the Boy's father dead, and the Little Dear One and her father unemployed. In the city, the Boy joins a criminal band. After marrying the Dear One, he tries to leave the gang, but its leader, the Musketeer, gets him arrested. The Dear One has a child whom the reformers tear away from her insisting that she is an unfit mother. The Musketeer, trying to seduce the Dear One, promises help, but the baby dies from neglect in an institution. When the Boy returns, he fights the Musketeer, who is killed by his jealous mistress. After she confesses, a racing car speeds to catch the Governor's train, and the Boy, about to hang, is pardoned.
Director
D. W. Griffith
Cast
Mae Marsh
Robert Harron
Miriam Cooper
Vera Lewis
Sam De Grasse
Clyde Hopkins
Fred Turner
Walter Long
Tom Wilson
Ralph Lewis
Edward Dillon
A. W. Mcclure
Lloyd Ingraham
William Brown
Max Davidson
Alberta Lee
Frank Brownlee
Barney Bernard
Luray Huntley
Eleanor Washington
Lucille Brown
Mary Alden
Pearl Elmore
Mrs. Arthur Mackley
Margaret Marsh
Tod Browning
Kate Bruce
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This film was an expanded and re-edited version of the modern episode of Intolerance (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20), which used footage discarded from the original film. It opened on August 18, 1919 at the George M. Cohan Theatre in New York as the fourth offering of the Griffith repertory season.
