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A Beast at Bay (Original title)
Date: 1912 (Release)

Country: USA

Director: D.W. Griffith

Synopsis: DRAMA. An escaped convict, hiding in the woods, forces a warder to change clothes with him at the point of a gun. At the same time, Edith is driving her sweetheart to the railway station, they quarrel and she accuses him of being a coward. As she is leaving in her car he sees the disguised convict hold her up and force her to help him escape. With some warders he gives chase in a railway engine, he tackles the convict and after a fight the warders arrive and take the convict into captivity. Edith realises that he is not a coward and the quarrel is made up.Synopsis: Drama

Genre:
Drama

Subject:
Motor cars
Credits (2)
Production Company: Biograph Company
Cast (4)
Mary Pickford, Lottie Pickford, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron