The Broken Locket
About The Broken Locket
George Peabody drinks. Ruth King, who has loved him since they were children, talks him into leaving his friends and going West. At the gate they kiss and she breaks a heart-shaped locket, one half for each of them. He does well in a boom, then slides back into drink and comes East a wreck. Ruth has gone blind. She and her mother are at the gate. He slips away. She thinks he will come back. The locket stays broken.
Cast & crew
More about The Broken Locket
D. W. Griffith directed it for Biograph. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Mary Pickford plays Ruth King. Frank Powell is billed. Biograph released it on 16 September 1909. It runs 11 minutes. The Moving Picture World supplied the story outline.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the gate where they split the locket and where George comes back.
Preservation
A print exists.
Notes
- Kate Bruce, Robert Harron, Dell Henderson, Arthur V. Johnson, James Kirkwood, and Marion Leonard are in the cast.
- Silent Era lists a surviving print and notes the U.S. public domain.
- Ruth keeps her half of the locket after she can no longer see.
Scenes
- Ruth snaps the heart locket and gives George half.
- George, ragged, sees blind Ruth at the gate and leaves.
- She waits, still holding her half.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-broken-locket)
