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  • The Hunchback (I) (1914)
  • Short | 20 min | Short, Drama
The Hunchback (I) (1914)
Short | 20 min | Short, Drama

"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little ...See more"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him. Although a great lover of children, they flee at his approach. Taking pity on a little girl whose doll has been broken, he spends all his earnings to replace her plaything, and in consequence, the people with whom he boards, order him out. Tired and despairing, he gets, unobserved, into a freight car, and is carried to a western mining town. There the wanderer finds friends in a miner and his little girl. An accident renders the little girl fatherless, and the hunchback brings the child to womanhood. As the years pass the cripple grows to care for his ward, but when he tells her of his love, he finds that it is not returned. The girl falls in love with a young prospector, and the jealous hunchback seeks to take his life, and then weakens in his resolve. Later the prospector is in deadly danger and the hunchback decides to let him die. But when he recalls a promise he made to the girl's dying father and of his own desire for happiness, he makes the sacrifice and saves the life that means so much to her. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Christy Cabanne (as W. Christy Cabanne)
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Updated Apr 12, 1914

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Apr 12, 1914 (United States)

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5 cast members
Name Known for
F.A. Turner
A Hunchback Peddler (as Frank Turner) A Hunchback Peddler (as Frank Turner)   See fewer
Lillian Gish
The Orphan - as an Adult The Orphan - as an Adult   See fewer
William Garwood
Tom Carson - a Young Prospector Tom Carson - a Young Prospector   See fewer
Tom Haverly
The Father The Father   See fewer
Edna Mae Wilson
The Orphan - as a Child The Orphan - as a Child   See fewer
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