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Over the Hills to the Poor House
1908 4.8 (2 votes) 0h 12m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
American Mutoscope & Biograph

Over the Hills to the Poor House

Overview

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.

Key Crew

Director of Photography: Billy Bitzer

Director: Stanner E.V. Taylor

Writer: D.W. Griffith

Story: Will Carleton

Top Cast

Florence Auer
Florence Auer

Old Woman

Edward Dillon
Edward Dillon

Son

Wallace McCutcheon Jr.

Anthony O'Sullivan

Bailiff

Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett

Bartender

Robert G. Vignola
Robert G. Vignola

Videos

Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1908) AM&B

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