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UNITED STATES · 1909

The Medicine Bottle

D.W. Griffith
Classical Hollywood maternal guilt medical emergency child responsibility family crisis race against time
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Synopsis

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.

Year1909
CountryUnited States
DirectorD.W. Griffith
MovementClassical Hollywood
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