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The Medicine Bottle
UNITED STATES · 1909

The Medicine Bottle

D.W. Griffith
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.

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