A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Lawrence Chenault (left) and Harry Henderson. Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Harry Henderson [Alvin Hillyard], Lucia Lynn Moses [Louise Howard], Norman Johnstone [Eddie Blake, Louise’s father], Ann Kennedy [Lucretia Green, the boarding house landlady], William E. Pettus [‘Spike’ Howard], Lawrence Chenault [Ralph Hathaway], Pearl MacCormick [Alice Hathaway]

Colored Players Film Corporation production. / Produced by Sherman Dudley and David Starkman. From a screen story by David Starkman. Cinematography by Al Ligouri. Presented by Colored Players Film Corporation. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute / Dennis Atkinson collection) [35mm duplicate positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: African-Americans - Alcohol: Alcoholics, Drunkeness - Crime: Rape (Attempted) - Death: Suicide - Domestic violence - Families: Father-daughter relationships, Stepfathers - Marriages - Musical instruments: Pianos - Musicians - Race film - Singers - Weapons: Guns

Listing updated: 2 February 2025.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.4828; Limbacher-Feature p. 214 : Documentary-Cram : Website-AFI.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.