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The Modern Prodigal

5.2 13 mins Drama   1910
American Mutoscope & Biograph  
Director(s): D.W. Griffith

In the opening of this subject we find the callow youth as he points towards the city's spires, exclaiming to his dear old mother, "Mother, there in the big city is my sphere. There will I turn the world over." Off he goes cityward, ambitious and presumptuous, and perhaps we may add reckless. Alas, the city's whirl is quite a change from the simple quiet life in the country and the youth falls a victim to the snares that beset the unsophisticated.

Casts of The Modern Prodigal

Guy Hedlund

as The Prodigal Son

George Nichols

as The Sheriff

Kate Bruce

as The Sheriff's Wife

Jack Pickford

as The Sheriff's Son

Clara T. Bracy

as The Prodigal's Mother

Dell Henderson

as At Post Office

William J. Butler

as A Farmer

Edward Dillon

as Guard

Frank Evans

as Guard

Francis J. Grandon

as At Post Office

Robert Harron

as At Post Office

Dell Henderson

as At Post Office

Anthony O'Sullivan

as At Farewell

Alfred Paget

as Guard

Lester Predmore

as Boy Swimming

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