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The Modern Prodigal (1910)

The Modern Prodigal (1910)

Drama

A Story In Symbolism

Release Date: 1910, August 28
Directors: D.W. Griffith
Countries: United States of America
Production: American Mutoscope & Biograph, American Mutoscope & Biograph
Cast: Robert Harron, Frank Evans, Dell Henderson, Jack Pickford, George Nichols, Clara T. Bracy, Edward Dillon, Kate Bruce, Francis J. Grandon, Guy Hedlund, Alfred Paget, Anthony O'Sullivan

Overview:

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.