Broken Ways
About Broken Ways
A young wife discovers that her husband, a road agent, is a brute and a criminal, and she leaves him. Believing him dead, she is about to give herself to another man when he reappears, running from the law. She refuses one of the claims on her and accepts the other. The sheriff closes in.
Cast & crew
More about Broken Ways
D. W. Griffith directed. F. P. Bayer wrote it. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Biograph released it on 8 March 1913. Henry B. Walthall plays the road agent, Blanche Sweet his wife, and Harry Carey the sheriff.
Themes
Background
A Biograph one-reeler from Griffith's last year with the company, splitting a Western plot between a wife's choice and a posse.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed it.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Charles Gorman plays a hold-up victim. Frank Opperman and Joseph McDermott are in the road agent's gang.
- Dorothy Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, and Gertrude Bambrick appear in the telegraph office and street scenes.
- The released length is given as 17 minutes at 16 frames per second.
- A print survives.
Scenes
- The wife is about to accept another man when the husband she thought was dead walks in, still wanted.
- Harry Carey's sheriff ends the standoff.
