The Crab
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Walter Edwards
Director
Thelma Salter
Ivy Marten
Frank Keenan
Foster Borrum
Ernest Butterworth
"Warts" Warner
Gertrude Claire
Mrs. Borrum
J. P. Lockney
Jim Owens
Film Details
Release Date
Feb
8,
1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-Bee
Distribution Company
Triangle Distributing Corp.
Country
United States
Synopsis
Out of spite, Foster Borrum, an embittered old man, adopts little Ivy Marten and takes her to his home, the "house where nobody ever laughs." A wild tale of cruelty to the child, spread by an urchin who plays with her, brings the old man to court, but when the little girl is placed on the witness stand and asked if her guardian is kind to her, she surprises the court - and most of all Borrum - by a glowing story of the games he plays with her and the attentions he lavishes upon her, all of which are the purely imaginative visions of her loyal little heart. Ivy's devotion wins the case for Borrum and transforms him into Ivy's fantasy image of him, making him the crab no longer.
Director
Walter Edwards
Director
Cast
Thelma Salter
Ivy Marten
Frank Keenan
Foster Borrum
Ernest Butterworth
"Warts" Warner
Gertrude Claire
Mrs. Borrum
J. P. Lockney
Jim Owens
Thomas Guise
"Doc" Wingate
Film Details
Release Date
Feb
8,
1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
New York Motion Picture Corp.; Kay-Bee
Distribution Company
Triangle Distributing Corp.
Country
United States
