A Beast at Bay

A Beast at Bay — Plot

A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new suitor refuses to get mixed up in a street brawl, the young woman views him as a coward. Nearby, a violent convict has escaped from prison. While the couple takes a ride in the woman’s automobile, the criminal ambushes a guard, taking the officer’s clothing and gun. The young woman still argues her suitor is a coward, drops him off, and drives off alone. She is then carjacked by the on-the-lam criminal. The young man witnesses the ambush and sets out to rescue his lover.

• Release date
• May 26, 1912
• Runtime
• 13 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• D.W. Griffith

A Beast at Bay — Cast

Mary Pickford The Young Woman Edwin August The Young Woman's Ideal Alfred Paget The Convict Robert Harron A Farmer Mae Marsh The Young Woman's Friend William A. Carroll Henry Lehrman

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W.C. Robinson