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The Narrow Road
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by D.W. Griffith

Cast: Elmer Booth [Jim Holcomb, an exconvict], Mary Pickford [his wife], Charles Mill Mailes [another exconvict, a counterfeiter], Alfred Paget [a police detective], Charles Gorman [a police detective], [?] Jack Pickford?, [?] W. Christy Cabanne (William Christy Cabanne)? [the tall tramp], [?] Max Davidson? [the short tramp], [?] J. Jiquel Lanoe? [a prisoner; and the foreman], [?] Frank Evans? [a prison guard], [?] W.C. Robinson? [a prison guard], [?] Adolph Lestina? [the bartender], [?] Grace Henderson?, [?] Harry Hyde?

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / From a screen story by George Hennessy. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 1 August 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Crime.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 12 November 2009.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Barry-Griffith p. 43; Eyman-Pickford p. 327; Spehr-American p. 3.

Home video: DVD.