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The Enemy’s Baby
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by [?] D.W. Griffith?
Cast: Lionel Barrymore [Postmaster Ben Brown], William J. Butler [Sam Miller, the grandfather], Kate Bruce [Sam Miller’s wife], Harry Carey [Miller], Claire McDowell [Miller’s wife], Charles Gorman [the sheriff], William Courtright, John T. Dillon
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by B.F. Clinton. / Released 10 July 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Katherine Stone (in Barry-Griffith p. 43) notes that this film was probably directed by D.W. Griffith, though no contemporary facts confirming this are available.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? A feud began with a political argument. Then the justice declared if granddad did not pay up he would attach his household goods. Granddad was that mad all he left of the furniture was kindling. When he learned his act had made him liable to the law he fled with his family, but came back after a lost baby, now in the hands of the enemy.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 20 December 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-IMDb.
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