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The Hunchback

1914-04-12 Drama 20mins

"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken, he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything, and in consequence, the people with whom he boards, order him out. Tired and despairing, he gets, unobserved, into a freight car, and is carried to a western mining town. There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl. An accident renders the little girl fatherless, and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood. As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward, but when he tells her of his love, he finds that it is not returned. The girl falls in love with a young prospector, and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life, and then weakens in his resolve. Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die.

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"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken, he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything, and in consequence, the people with whom he boards, order him out. Tired and despairing, he gets, unobserved, into a freight car, and is carried to a western mining town. There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl. An accident renders the little girl fatherless, and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood. As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward, but when he tells her of his love, he finds that it is not returned. The girl falls in love with a young prospector, and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life, and then weakens in his resolve. Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die.

  • Released
    1914-04-12
  • Revenue
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  • Budget
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  • Runtime
    20mins
  • Genre
    Drama
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    No Language
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  • Production
    Majestic Motion Picture Company

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Christy Cabanne
Director
Anita Loos
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Cast

F.A. Turner

F.A. Turner

A Hunchback Peddler
Lillian Gish

Lillian Gish

The Orphan - as an Adult
William Garwood

William Garwood

Tom Carson - a Young Prospector
Tom Haverly

Tom Haverly

The Father
Edna Mae Wilson

Edna Mae Wilson

The Orphan - as a Child