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Over the Hills to the Poor House

1908 12 minutes
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The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.

Released

26th June 1908

118 years ago

Runtime

12 minutes

Finishes at 2:48pm

Ratings and awards

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    5.5/10

  • TMDb Logo

    48%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    53%

Directed by

Stanner E.V. Taylor

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Written by

D.W. Griffith, Will Carleton

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