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His Duty (1909)

His Duty (1909)

Drama
Release Date: 1909, May 31
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Countries: United States of America
Production: Biograph Company
Cast: David Miles, Mary Pickford, Marion Leonard, Owen Moore, Robert Harron, Jack Pickford, Kate Bruce, Violet Mersereau, Frank Powell, Arthur V. Johnson

Overview:

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.