A Lodging for the Night (1912)
Dick Logan, a young writer, stops at a little border town and takes lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to steal it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the two tramps breaking into his room. He steals out and gets lodging at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. The tramps follow him and try again. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
Director: D.W. Griffith
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Charles West as Dick Logan |
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Mary Pickford as The Mexican Girl |
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Charles Hill Mailes as The Mexican Girl's Father |
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Frank Opperman as The Owner of the Gambling Hall |
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Frank Evans as The Gambler |
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W.C. Robinson as The Bartender / A Deputy |
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Robert Harron as The Victim / In Gambling Hall |
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Mae Marsh as First Mexican Couple - the Woman |
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Christy Cabanne as First Mexican Couple - the Man (as W. Christy Cabanne) |
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Alfred Paget as The Sheriff |
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Hector Dion as The Porter |
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William A. Carroll as A Tramp |
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Adolph Lestina as A Deputy |
| Camera | Billy Bitzer | Director of Photography |
| Directing | D.W. Griffith | Director |
| Writing | George Hennessy | Writer |