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Original title

Confidence

Year

1909

Running time

11 min.

Country

United States

Director

D.W. Griffith

Screenwriter

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Cinematography

G.W. Bitzer, Arthur Marvin (B&W)

Producer

American Mutoscope & Biograph

Genre

Drama | Short Film. Silent Film. Origins of Film

Synopsis

A beautiful romance of a girl from the Golden West. Confidence is the flower grown from the seed of true friendship, watered by the tears of adversity, and often assailed by the blight of calumny. For as Shakespeare says', "be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny." So it was with little Nellie Burton, the orphan girl of the rancho, who budding into womanhood, realizes her position and appreciates the low brutal character of the habitués of the Dive, even discerning the true nature of her fancied sweetheart, Jim Colt, who was to say the least an unconscionable villain. Tiring of her present environments she decides to leave the place seek a nobler and higher life. To this end she makes her way eastward and applies for a position as nurse at a New York hospital, and we next find her engaged in that work of mercy "ministering to the sick." Her mild manners and pure nature impress the head surgeon, a man of eminence in his profession, to such an extent...

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Confidence (S)

1909

D.W. Griffith