The Cord of Life

The Cord of Life (1909)

DramaCrimeThriller

Antonine, a worthless, good-for-nothing scoundrel, demands money of his cousin Galora, an energetic, provident husband and father. His demands are met with a positive rebuff, and when he becomes insistent be is forcibly ejected by Galora. As he leaves the tenement he vows to get even, and lies in wait until Galora has gone out on business. Climbing to the fifth floor, on which the Galoras live, he watches his chance, which comes when Mrs. Galora goes for an instant to visit a neighbor on the same floor. Darting into the apartment and raising the window he perceives the awful result of a drop to the ground, five stories below, and so evolves a plan that is dastardly in the extreme. Taking the infant child from the cradle, and placing it in a basket he lets it out with a short rope, the end of which he secures by letting the sash down on it, so that to raise the window would precipitate the baby to destruction.

Director: D.W. Griffith

Casts

	Charles Inslee as Galora
	Marion Leonard as Galora's Wife
	George Gebhardt as Antonine
	Linda Arvidson as In Tenement
	Dorothy Bernard as
	Clara T. Bracy as
	Charles K. French as
	Charles Gorman as
	Guy Hedlund as
	Anita Hendrie as In Tenement
	Arthur V. Johnson as Policeman
	Adolph Lestina as
	David Miles as In Tenement
	Gertrude Robinson as On Street
	Mack Sennett as Policeman
	Harry Solter as On Street
	Dorothy West as In Tenement
	John R. Cumpson as In Tenement
	Florence Lawrence as Woman in Tenement

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