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Original Title :
The Medicine Bottle
Genre :
Movie / Short / Drama
Year :
1909
Directror :
D.W. Griffith
Cast :
Florence Lawrence,Adele DeGarde,Marion Leonard
Writer :
D.W. Griffith
Type :
Movie
Time :
5min
Rating :
6.4/10

While she attends a party, Mrs. Ross leaves her young daughter to care for her bed-ridden mother. At the party, Mrs. Ross realizes she left the wrong medicine, and desperately tries to contact her daughter before it's too late.

The Medicine Bottle (1909) Online

This film demonstrates two things, the efficacy of that time-saving agent which out Mercurys Mercury, the telephone, and the importance of that movement to enforce a differential form of bottle in which to hold poisonous liquids. Mrs. Ross, whose mother is very ill, has in attendance a trained nurse, who has received an urgent message to come to her own home, owing to the illness of her sister. As Mrs. Ross is dressed and ready to attend an afternoon tea at Mrs. Parker's, this forced absence of the nurse is very inopportune. However, little Alice. Mrs. Ross's seven-year-old daughter, is a bright child, so she feels that she can trust her to look after her grandma, and give her the medicine at the regular intervals. Mrs. Ross, herself, is suffering from a painful abrasion on her hand, for which she has procured an antiseptic to bathe it with, which is a deadly poison. It happens that the antiseptic and grandma's medicine are contained in similar-shaped bottles, and Mrs. Ross in her ...
Credited cast:
Florence Lawrence Florence Lawrence - Mrs. Ross
Adele DeGarde Adele DeGarde - Mrs. Ross's Daughter
Marion Leonard Marion Leonard - Mrs. Parker
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Linda Arvidson Linda Arvidson - Telephone Operator / At Party
Clara T. Bracy Clara T. Bracy
Gladys Egan Gladys Egan
Anita Hendrie Anita Hendrie - At Party
Min Johnson Min Johnson - At Party
Jeanie Macpherson Jeanie Macpherson
David Miles David Miles - At Party
Owen Moore Owen Moore - At Party
Barry O'Moore Barry O'Moore - At Party (as Herbert Yost)
Mack Sennett Mack Sennett - At Party
Dorothy West Dorothy West - At Party

Released as a split reel along with Jones and His New Neighbors (1909).


User reviews

GYBYXOH

GYBYXOH

In this Biograph picture two common subjects are treated very graphically. One is the necessity of having poisonous liquids in a bottle different from others, and the other is the utility of the telephone in times of great hurry. A mother goes away and leaves a little girl to care for a sick grandmother. The mother takes by mistake the bottle of medicine prepared for the patient, leaving a bottle of poisonous liniment in its place, after carefully instructing her little daughter about giving the medicine to her grandmother. The acting when the little one begins to prepare for the administering of the medicine is especially good. Fortunately the little girl meets with three accidents, otherwise the dose would have been given. Frantically the mother tries to get her home on the telephone, but central is busy discussing the latest hats. Finally, however, it is done and the audience heaves a sigh of relief. The action in some parts is too long drawn out. The subject is one of those homely every-day occurrences which is certain to attract favorable comment. - The Moving Picture World, April 3, 1909
Bulace

Bulace

The 34 year old D.W. Griffith allows his actors to free themselves of their ethnic past (due to the fact that some of them came over from Australia, Germany, Hungary, etc) in order to reinvent themselves as American characters. This short film is a mask.