The Narrow Road
About The Narrow Road
Jim Holcomb and a friend leave prison. Jim's wife is waiting. The friend, a counterfeiter, wants Jim back in the trade. Jim refuses and takes a job at a lumber yard. The friend goes back to making bad money and, in a bar, tries again. Jim is tempted and still refuses. A detective later questions the yard foreman, who tells him about an honest act of Jim's.
Cast & crew
More about The Narrow Road
D. W. Griffith directed George Hennessy's script. G. W. Bitzer photographed it. Biograph produced it and General Film Company released it on August 1, 1912. It runs 17 minutes. Elmer Booth plays Jim Holcomb. Mary Pickford plays his wife. Charles Hill Mailes plays the counterfeiter. Jack Pickford and W. Christy Cabanne, as a tramp, are also billed.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the prison gate, the lumber yard, and the bar.
Preservation
Preserved in the Library of Congress paper-print collection.
Notes
- The English Wikipedia plot stops on the foreman's account of Jim's honest act.
- A paper print is in the Library of Congress.
- Mary Pickford and her brother Jack are both in the cast.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive as silent-the-narrow-road.
Scenes
- Jim's wife meets him at the gate while the friend talks crime.
- The foreman tells the detective what Jim did.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-narrow-road)
- Library of Congress
