The Renunciation
About The Renunciation
Two miners are fighting over Kittie Ryan. One is about to kill the other in his sleep. She stops him and introduces the fiancé she has brought from the city. The miners give her up.
Cast & crew
More about The Renunciation
D. W. Griffith directed and wrote the one-reeler for Biograph in New York. Billy Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed it. Biograph released it on July 19, 1909, at 982 feet.
Themes
Making
Griffith shot it with the Biograph stock company, Pickford among them, in the summer of 1909.
Look
Billy Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed the reel.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Mary Pickford plays Kittie Ryan. Anthony O'Sullivan plays her uncle Steve Ryan.
- James Kirkwood plays Joe Fielding. Harry Solter plays Sam Walters. Billy Quirk plays Kittie's fiancé.
- Arthur V. Johnson, Edwin August, and Wilfred Lucas are also in the Biograph company cast.
- The release length is 982 feet, one reel.
Scenes
- One miner stands over the other, ready to kill him in his sleep.
- Kittie brings in the man she is going to marry.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Renunciation (1909).webm)
