The Modern Prodigal (1910)

A Story In Symbolism

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

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, "Mother, there in the big city is my sphere. There will I turn the world over." Off he goes cityward, ambitious and presumptuous, and perhaps we may add reckless. Alas, the city's whirl is quite a change from the simple quiet life in the country and the youth falls a victim to the snares that beset the unsophisticated.

Cast

Guy Hedlund

The Prodigal Son

George Nichols

The Sheriff

Kate Bruce

The Sheriff's Wife

Jack Pickford

The Sheriff's Son

Clara T. Bracy

The Prodigal's Mother

Dell Henderson

At Post Office

James Kirkwood

Mack Sennett

William J. Butler

A Farmer

Edward Dillon

Guard

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