His Last Burglary (1910)

Name: His Last Burglary
Director: D.W. Griffith
Genre: Drama
Released: 1910-02-21
Duration: 15 min
Cast: Henry B. Walthall, Dorothy Bernard, Dorothy West, James Kirkwood, Kate Bruce

15 min · United States of America · Dir. D.W. Griffith

Drama 1910 movies

Mired in poverty and no longer able to endure the hardships that this situation brings upon their baby, a young man chooses, with his wife, to give up the child by abandoning it in a rich household. A burglar who himself has just lost a child, breaks into this house and decides to ease the mourning of his wife by stealing the abandoned baby. Soon after, the young man and his wife receive word of their sudden fortune. They then try to find their child, but their search is in vain. Faced with the desperation of his wife, the young man calls a doctor whose coachman is none other than the burglar, since reformed. When the burglar learns the cause of the young woman’s misery, he realizes the gravity of his crime and convinces his wife that they must return the baby to its parents.