The Cricket on the Hearth
(1923)
Director:
Lorimer Johnston
Writer:
Caroline Frances Cooke, Charles Dickens
Cast:
Josef Swickard, Fritzi Ridgeway, Virginia Brown Faire
Tells of Caleb Plummer, his son Edward and blind daughter Bertha, and rivalry over neighbor May Fielding. May's friend Dot weds John Peerybingle; they find a lucky cricket in their cottage. A mortgage and house on fire figure in the story.