The Unwelcome Guest
Also known as {An Unwelcome Guest}
(1913) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Mary Pickford [Jessie, the slavey], W. Chrystie Miller [the old father], Charles Hill Mailes [the son], Claire McDowell [the wife], Jack Pickford [one of the children], Elmer Booth [the hired hand], Kate Bruce [the old wife], Harry Carey [the sheriff], J. Jiquel Lanoe [the doctor], Lionel Barrymore [a man at the auction], Frank Evans [a man at the auction], Lillian Gish [a woman at the auction], Adolph Lestina [a man at the auction], W.C. Robinson [a man at the auction], George O. Nicholls [?] [a man at the auction]?, Henry B. Walthall [?] [a man at the auction]?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by George Hennessy. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 15 March 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released after The New York Hat (1912), Pickford’s actual final film for Biograph.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists [8mm reduction positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 11 May 2018.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Eyman-Pickford pp. 66, 327; Spehr-American p. 4; Tarbox-Lost pp. 127, 262, 279; Weaver-Twenty p. 145 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: DVD.
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