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Director:
D.W. Griffith
Writer:
D.W. Griffith (writer)
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Release Date:
1 April 1909 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Short more
Plot:
A drinking man arrives home, late and sozzled as usual. His wife reminds him that he promised to take their child to a play... more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Arthur V. Johnson ... John Wharton
Linda Arvidson ... Mrs. John Wharton
Adele DeGarde ... The Wharton Daughter
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Charles Avery ... In the Play
John R. Cumpson ... In the Orchestra / In the Bar
Gladys Egan
Robert Harron ... Theatre Usher
Anita Hendrie ... In the Play / In the Audience

Florence Lawrence ... In the Play
Marion Leonard ... In the Play
David Miles ... In the Play
Owen Moore ... In the Play
Tom Moore ... In the Audience
Herbert Prior ... In the Bar
Mack Sennett ... In the Play / In the Orchestra / In the Bar
Harry Solter ... In the Play
Herbert Yost
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Additional Details

Runtime:
13 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Silent

Fun Stuff

Movie Connections:
Edited into Prohibition: Thirteen Years That Changed America (1997) (TV) more

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Griffith, 29 February 2008
Author: Michael_Elliott from Louisville, KY

Drunkard's Reformation, The (1909)

*** 1/2 (out of 4)

An alcoholic father returns home, abuses his wife and then has his daughter ask him to take her to a play. The father, not wanting to, goes ahead with his daughter to the play, which turns out to be about an alcoholic. Griffith's father was destroyed by alcohol so this would be a topic to many of his shorts. Griffith gets his message across very nicely and again, needless to say, the editing between the father and the play makes the film.

You can find this film on Grapevine's D.W. Griffith: The Director series.

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