His Trust
About His Trust
Colonel Frazier leaves his wife and daughter with George, a Black servant played in blackface by Wilfred Lucas, and goes to the Confederate war. Mack Sennett, as a soldier, brings the news that the colonel is dead. George stays with the widow and the child.
Cast & crew
More about His Trust
D. W. Griffith directed Emmett C. Hall's story. Biograph released it on January 16, 1911.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the farewell and the scene in which the death notice arrives.
Preservation
Prints survive at the Museum of Modern Art and the Library of Congress.
Notes
- Dell Henderson plays Colonel Frazier. Claire McDowell plays his wife. Edith Haldeman plays the child.
Scenes
- Sennett's soldier brings word that Colonel Frazier has been killed.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-his-trust)
