Film

The Strange Story of Elsie Mason

1912 · 20m · Drama

Little Elsie, scarcely two years of age, awakens one morning and crawls out of the house, dragging her doll. The little tot creeps to the nearby railroad station and resumes her nap in one of the flower beds. Mrs. Hastings, a wealthy widow, is taking an early morning train, after having spent several weeks at an eastern summer resort. She reaches the station before train time and while strolling about, she discovers little Elsie. While she is fondling the little one, the train arrives and Mrs. Hastings, who has no child of her own, cannot master the temptation to take this baby with her. Upon arriving in the west, Mrs. Hastings learns from a newspaper of the strange disappearance of Elsie Mason.

Alice Joyce

Elsie Mason / Christine Hastings

Tom Moore

Jack Hollis

Lucille Young

Mrs. Hastings

Baby Grace Foley

Elsie Mason as a Child

• Edmund LawrenceDirector

Release date

October 30, 1912

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

20m

Rated

NR

Genres

Drama

• 

  The Dark Silence

  1916

• 

  The Power of a Lie

  1923

• 

  A Dangerous Game

  1922

• 

  Are All Men Alike?

  1920

• Svengali

  1914

• 

  Stop Thief!

  1915

• 

  Saints and Sinners

  1916

• 

  The Inevitable

  1917

• 

  Heroes in Blue

  1927

• 

  South Sea Love

  1927

• 

  Outcast

  1917

• The Uphill Path

  1918