His Duty (1909)
NR7mMay 31, 1909ReleasedNR(4)
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.
- Director
- D.W. Griffith
- Writers
- O. Henry, Frank Powell
Frank Powell
Jack Allen
Owen Moore
Bob Allen
Kate Bruce
The Sons' Mother
Marion Leonard
Woman in store
Mary Pickford
A young woman in the street
David Miles
Proprietor
Robert Harron
One of the Children on the Street
Arthur V. Johnson
Man in Store
Violet Mersereau
One of the Children on the Street
Jack Pickford
One of the Children on the Street
