A Lodging for the Night

A Lodging for the Night
Directed by	D. W. Griffith
Produced by	Biograph Company
Starring	Mary Pickford Charles West
Cinematography	G. W. Bitzer
Distributed by	General Film Company
Release date	May 9, 1912 (1912-05-09)
Running time	short
Country	United States
Languages	Silent; English

A Lodging for the Night is a 1912 silent short film directed by D. W. Griffith and stars Mary Pickford and Charles West. ^[1] The film is also referred to as Lodging for the Night. ^[2] The plot was perhaps very vaguely inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's story of the same name ^[3] and is supposedly set in the Old South. ^{[4] [5]}

Cast

• Charles West as Dick Logan
• Mary Pickford as The Mexican Girl
• Charles Hill Mailes as The Mexican Girl's Father
• Frank Opperman as The Owner of the Gambling Hall
• Frank Evans as The Gambler
• W. C. Robinson as The Bartender/ A Deputy
• Robert Harron as The Victim/in Gambling Hall
• Mae Marsh as First Mexican Couple - The Woman
• Christy Cabanne as The First Mexican Couple - The Man
• Alfred Paget as The Sheriff
• Hector Dion as The Porter

Uncredited

• John Barrymore at card table/conspirator/thug
• Lionel Barrymore at Desperado at card table
• Sidney Drew at card table (unconfirmed!)

References

1. A Lodging for the Night at silentera.com
2. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2025-09-11.
3. Wagenknecht, Edward; Slide, Anthony (1975). The Films of D. W. Griffith. Crown Publishers. ISBN   978-0-517-52326-1.
4. Lefebvre, Martin (2007-05-07). Landscape and Film. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-136-33486-3.
5. Mottet, Jean (1998). L'invention de la scène américaine: cinéma et paysage (in French). L'Harmattan. ISBN   978-2-7384-6567-2.

External links

• A Lodging for the Night IMDb.com