The Day After
About The Day After
Mr. and Mrs. Hilton give a New Year's Eve party and agree not to drink the punch. Guests arrive and the agreement fails. Both of them get drunk. In the morning Mr. Hilton is sick and ashamed of how he behaved with another woman. He is afraid to face his wife until he sees that she feels just as guilty.
Cast & crew
More about The Day After
D. W. Griffith and Frank Powell directed it for Biograph. Griffith produced it. Mary Pickford is credited with the writing. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Blanche Sweet and Arthur V. Johnson lead the cast. Biograph released it in 1909. A print is in the Library of Congress.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the New Year's party and the morning after.
Preservation
A print survives in the Library of Congress.
Notes
- Marion Leonard, George Nichols, Linda Arvidson, James Kirkwood, and Henry Lehrman are billed.
- The morning-after shame is shared. Each thinks the other is the injured one.
- The party punch is the drink they had sworn off.
Scenes
- The Hiltons set the punch out and promise not to touch it.
- Both are drunk before the party ends.
- He faces her in the morning and finds she is ashamed too.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Day after (1909).webm)
- Library of Congress
