The Maniac Cook

The Maniac Cook — Plot

A household cook named Margie has a sudden mental breakdown and attacks her employers, the Holland family. After being briefly restrained, she escapes the house and later sneaks back in. Driven by a "fiendish idea," she takes the Holland's infant baby from its crib and hides the child in the kitchen oven before starting a fire beneath it. The parents unknowingly begin to use the oven, but the baby is rescued just in time when the parents discover the plot during a struggle with the cook, who is then arrested by police.

• Release date
• January 4, 1909
• Runtime
• 9 min
• Genres
• Drama, Thriller
• Director
• D.W. Griffith

The Maniac Cook — Cast

Marion Leonard Mrs. Holland Harry Solter Mr. Holland George Gebhardt Policeman #1 Mack Sennett Policeman #2 Clara T. Bracy David Miles

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Anita Hendrie Margie, the Cook