Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908)

ALL 06/26/1908 (en) Drama 12 Min
  • Release
    06/26/1908
  • Production
    American Mutoscope & Biograph
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Over the Hills to the Poor House
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.

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Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908) 12 Min

ALL 06/26/1908 (en)
Drama
  • Release 06/26/1908
  • Production
    American Mutoscope & Biograph
  • Original title Over the Hills to the Poor House
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children. To her son Charles, a wild but kind young fellow, she leaves a small amount, feeling that he will soon run through it. The good-hearted boy is perfectly satisfied, believing in the wisdom of his mother's actions. He assumes she will find a home with one of his siblings, who are married and settled. The old woman moves in with her married son, but is driven out by his wife over an argument about her young granddaughter. She is forced to move into a squalid apartment in a cheap tenement house, but is evicted for failing to pay her rent. Mack Sennett appears as a bartender in this film.

  1. Stanner E.V. Taylor

    Director

  2. Will Carleton

    Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer