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A Lodging for the Night
(1912) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Charles West [Dick Logan], Mary Pickford [the Mexican girl], Charles Hill Mailes [the girl’s father], Frank Opperman [the gambling hall owner], Frank Evans [the gambler], W.C. Robinson [the bartender; and a deputy], Robert Harron [the victim; and a man in the gambling hall], Mae Marsh [the woman of the first Mexican couple], W. Christy Cabanne [the man of the first Mexican couple], Alfred Paget [the sheriff], Hector Dion [the porter], William A. Carroll [a tramp], Adolph Lestina [a deputy]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by George Hennessy. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 9 May 1912. / [?] Biograph 35mm spherical format; released in Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format?
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Dick Logan, a young writer in search of local color, stops at a little border town in the Southwest and engages lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to secure it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. That night, to while the time, he plays faro and breaks the bank, which greatly augments his already large amount of money. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the efforts of the two tramps to get into the room. He steals out and asks for lodging for the night at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. Here he gets real “local color,” as the tramps have followed him and they enter the room through the window, while the Mexican, who also covets his money, enters through the door. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
Survival status: Prints exist in the film holdings of the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education [35mm duplicate negative]; and in the Library of Congress film archive [16mm preservation reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 December 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Eyman-Pickford p. 326; Spehr-American p. 2 : Website-IMDb; Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.
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