A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Frame enlargement: Russell Merritt collection; courtesy Le Giornate del Cinema Muto.

Cast: Charles Hill Mailes [the lunatic, also known as the ‘unfortunate’ patient], Lionel Barrymore [the doctor], Claire McDowell [the doctor’s wife], Lillian Gish [the nurse], W. Christy Cabanne (Christy Cabanne) [an attack victim], Robert Harron [an asylum guard], Billy Elmer (William Elmer) [an asylum guard], Alfred Paget [an asylum guard], W.C. Robinson [an asylum guard], Joseph McDermott [an asylum guard; and a searcher], Kate Bruce [a patient], Adolph Lestina [a patient], Frank Opperman [a patient; and a clerk], Walter Miller [a clerk], Adelaide Bronti [a woman in the tenement apartment], William J. Butler, [?] Dorothy Bernard?

Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Jere F. Looney. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 10 May 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA by The General Film Company, Incorporated, in 1916.

Drama.

Synopsis: An insane man is rehabilitated by the power of music.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Insane asylums - Musical instruments: Pianos

Listing updated: 6 January 2025.

References: Film viewing : Barry-Griffith p. 43; Spehr-American p. 2; Weaver-Twenty p. 145 : Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.