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The Road to the Heart

The Road to the Heart
Scene with actors (from left) David Miles, Anita Hendrie, Florence Lawrence, and Herbert Yost
Directed byD. W. Griffith
Written byD. W. Griffith
Produced byAmerican Mutoscope and Biograph Company
New York, N.Y.[1]
StarringDavid Miles
Herbert Yost
Anita Hendrie
CinematographyArthur Marvin[2]
Release date
  • April 5, 1909 (1909-04-05)
Running time
9-10 minutes (release length 618 feet)[3][a]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Road to the Heart is a 1909 American short film, a dramedy directed by D. W. Griffith and produced by the Biograph Company of New York City.[2] Starring David Miles, Anita Hendrie and Herbert Yost, it was filmed over two days in March 1909 at Biograph's studio in Manhattan and released that April in theaters as a film reel split with the Biograph comedy Trying to Get Arrested.[3]

  1. ^ "The Road to the Heart (1909)", American Film Institute (AFI), Los Angeles, California. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b Graham, Cooper C.; Higgins, Steve; Mancini, Elaine; Viera, João Luiz. Entry for "Road to the Heart", D. W. Griffith and the Biograph Company. Metuchen, New Jersey and London: The Scarecrow Press, 1985, p. 43. Internet Archive (IA), San Francisco, California. Retrieved 6 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Latest Films/American Mutoscope and Biograph Company/April 5/The Road to the Heart", release listings, The Moving Picture World (New York, N.Y.), 10 April 1909, p. 454. IA. Retrieved 7 April 2021.


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