Put Yourself in His Place | |
Director: | Theodore Marston |
Starring: | William Garwood Marguerite Snow |
Distributor: | Thanhouser Film Corporation |
Runtime: | 2 reels |
Country: | United States |
Language: | Silent film English intertitles |
Put Yourself in His Place is a 1912 American silent short drama based on an 1870 English novel by Charles Reade. The film was adapted and directed by Theodore Marston, and stars William Garwood and Marguerite Snow in the lead roles.
The story is of an English manufacturing town ("Hillsborough", based on Sheffield) in which Henry Little, a worker and inventor, is persecuted by trade unions, jealous because he was better trained than his fellows. Squire Raby, Little's uncle, is a forcible character, and a pleasant love story offsets the labor troubles. A purpose of the novel was to expose, without censure, the errors of early trades unions.