Best Japanese Anime Films to Watch
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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.
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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.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:George Hennessy
In Theaters:5/9/1912
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Runtime:14 minutes
Studio:American Mutoscope & Biograph
Cast
D.W. Griffith
Director
Charles West
Dick Logan
Mary Pickford
The Mexican Girl
Charles Hill Mailes
The Mexican Girl's Father
Frank Opperman
The Owner of the Gambling Hall
Frank Evans
The Gambler
W.C. Robinson
The Bartender / A Deputy
Robert Harron
The Victim / In Gambling Hall
Mae Marsh
First Mexican Couple - the Woman
Christy Cabanne
First Mexican Couple - the Man (as W. Christy Cabanne)
Alfred Paget
The Sheriff
Hector Dion
The Porter
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