A Cry for Help

Overview

Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.

Cast

Lionel Barrymore

The Tramp

Lillian Gish

The Maid

Walter Miller

The Doctor

Harry Carey

The Thief

Claire McDowell

The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient

Robert Harron

Witness to Accident

Dorothy Gish

Witness to Accident

Christy Cabanne

Witness to Accident

N/A

John T. Dillon

Policeman / Witness to Accident

Alfred Paget

Policeman