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His Duty

3.9 7 mins Drama   1909
Biograph Company  
Director(s): D.W. Griffith

Release Date: 31 Mon, May 1909

It's Bob Allen's twenty-first birthday. His mother and his brother Jack, a policeman present him with a cap, personalized with his initals in the lining. Jack then goes to work and Bob goes out also. Later in the evening, Jack is called to the scene of a robbery, where he finds the cap with his brother's initials. Dismayed by the idea that his brother is a thief, he goes home and confronts Bob with the evidence. Though it breaks their mother's heart, Jack does his duty and leads his brother out in handcuffs.

Casts of His Duty

Frank Powell

as Jack Allen

Owen Moore

as Bob Allen

Kate Bruce

as The Sons' Mother

Marion Leonard

as Woman in store

Mary Pickford

as A young woman in the street

David Miles

as Proprietor

Robert Harron

as One of the Children on the Street

Arthur V. Johnson

as Man in Store

Violet Mersereau

as One of the Children on the Street

Jack Pickford

as One of the Children on the Street

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