The Sunbeam (1912)
A RAY OF HOPE IN THE TENEMENTS OF AN AMERICAN CITY
1912 · NR · 0h 15m · Drama, Comedy
Genres: Drama, Comedy
Set in a tenement, a lonely confirmed bachelor occupies a room across the hall from a dour spinster. Children run amok in the hallways playing pranks on the two. A little girl from the floor above, now alone in the world, brings the pair together and brightens their lives.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Writers: George Hennessy
Cinematography: Billy Bitzer
Cast
Ynez Seabury as Little SunbeamKate Bruce as Sunbeam's MammaClaire McDowell as The SpinsterDell Henderson as The BachelorCharles Hill Mailes as The JanitorPriscilla Dean as In Tenement HallwayGladys Egan as One of the Children in HallwayEdna Foster as Child with Cap in HallwayW. Chrystie Miller as Old Man In Tenement HallwayAdolph Lestina as 1st Health InspectorJohn T. Dillon as A PolicemanMore like this
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