Film

The Broken Locket

1909 · 13m · Drama

IMDb

4.6

George Peabody is a young man who has been giving free rein to his inclinations, the principal one being drink. One might have concluded he was lost, but there was the chance which the hand of Providence always bestows in the person of pretty little Ruth King, who had secretly loved George since their childhood days. She succeeds in persuading him from his reckless life, and he determines to cut off from his old loose companions by going out West and making a man of himself. Bidding Ruth and her mother good-bye, he realizes that he loves his little preserver and promises to return worthy of her love and confidence. They plight their troth with their first kiss and a heart shaped locket, which Ruth wears, she breaking it in two, giving George one side while she retains the other, which symbolized the reunion of their hearts with his return.

Frank Powell

George Peabody

Mary Pickford

Ruth King

Kate Bruce

Ruth's Mother

Robert Harron

Outside Company Office

Dell Henderson

Arthur V. Johnson

Mr. Joplin

James Kirkwood

At Bar Table

Marion Leonard

Mexican Woman

Owen Moore

At Bar Table / Outside Company Office

George Nichols

Doctor / Outside Company Office

Anthony O'Sullivan

Outside Company Office

Lottie Pickford

Billy Quirk

Outside Company Office

Gertrude Robinson

Kate's Friend

Mack Sennett

Peabody's Companion

Henry B. Walthall

Mexican Man

• D.W. GriffithWriter · Director
• Billy BitzerDirector of Photography

"The Broken Locket" (1909) director D. W. Griffith, cinematographer Billy Bitzer

Release date

September 16, 1909

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

13m

Genres

Drama