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  • A Bird in a Gilded Cage (1909)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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A Bird in a Gilded Cage (1909)
Short | Short, Drama
A father returns to find an empty house, his loved ones fled with the man he trusted. Madness seizes him. A frantic search is made everywhere for the guilty couple, but without avail. Losing all interest in life - business and friends ...See moreA father returns to find an empty house, his loved ones fled with the man he trusted. Madness seizes him. A frantic search is made everywhere for the guilty couple, but without avail. Losing all interest in life - business and friends drift away - and the inevitable happens - the father becomes an outcast - drifts lower and lower until starvation stares him in the face, and he becomes burglar. In the meantime the guilty couple have gone the way of the transgressor. The child now a beautiful girl of eighteen, weds a man who wins her after an ardent courtship. A brief period of happiness, and she awakes to find she is a "A Bird in a gilded Cage." Fate further sports with her. A man comes into her life whom she learns to love. She agrees to an elopement. But now the strangest part of all. Her father, in concealment, overhears the plotting. He confronts the young people, and forces them to listen to him. He tells the pitiful story of how his life was wrecked, with dramatic effect, and turns the young people from their purpose. The girl tells her story, and the father finds a daughter, and the daughter a father. Written by The Film Index - March 6, 1909 See less
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Edwin S. Porter
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Updated Mar 5, 1909
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Mar 5, 1909 (United States)

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