Through the Breakers
About Through the Breakers
A society couple neglect their daughter for parties. When she becomes seriously ill the father stays home and tells his wife to do the same. She slips out to a dance. The child worsens and is dead when the mother returns. The husband leaves her. She goes to the grave and asks forgiveness.
Cast & crew
More about Through the Breakers
D. W. Griffith directed. Stanner E. V. Taylor is the writer on Wikidata. G. W. Bitzer photographed. Released 6 December 1909. Copyright 8 December 1909, J135642. One reel, 974 feet. Wikidata duration is 11 minutes. Moving Picture World noted it on 11 December 1909 and reviewed it on 18 December. The New York Dramatic Mirror noted it on 11 December and reviewed it on 18 December.
Themes
Making
A Biograph one-reeler that keeps the mother at a dance while the child dies at home.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed it.
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- James Kirkwood and Marion Leonard play the couple. Adele DeGarde plays the child.
- Also credited: Kate Bruce, George Nichols, Charles Craig, Arthur V. Johnson, William A. Quirk, Linda Arvidson, and Donald Crisp. Mary Pickford is on the catalog cast and not on the AFI list.
- A file is on Wikimedia Commons as Through the breakers (1909).webm.
Scenes
- The mother leaves for the dance against her husband's order.
- She comes home to a dead child, and later asks forgiveness at the grave.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Through the breakers (1909).webm)
