What Drink Did
About What Drink Did
A carpenter with a wife and two daughters turns down a beer at lunch. After work, two coworkers talk him into a drink, then another, and he keeps going.
Cast & crew
More about What Drink Did
D. W. Griffith directed. Silent Era credits the scenario to Edward Acker, from Timothy Shay Arthur's novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There. Wikidata lists Griffith as the writer. Copyright H127702, May 28, 1909. Silent Era dates the release to May 31 or June 3, 1909. The negative was 913 feet.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the Biograph temperance short.
Preservation
A 35mm paper positive is in the Library of Congress paper-print collection.
Notes
- Florence Lawrence and David Miles lead the cast. Gladys Egan and Adele DeGarde play the daughters.
- Mack Sennett and Anthony O'Sullivan are also listed by Silent Era.
- A 35mm paper print is in the Library of Congress paper-print collection.
Influenced by
- Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, by Timothy Shay Arthur
Also available
- Library of Congress (paper print)
