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The Maniac Cook

0.5 9 mins Drama   Thriller   1909
American Mutoscope & Biograph  
Director(s): D.W. Griffith

Release Date: 04 Mon, Jan 1909

A household cook named Margie has a sudden mental breakdown and attacks her employers, the Holland family. After being briefly restrained, she escapes the house and later sneaks back in. Driven by a "fiendish idea," she takes the Holland's infant baby from its crib and hides the child in the kitchen oven before starting a fire beneath it. The parents unknowingly begin to use the oven, but the baby is rescued just in time when the parents discover the plot during a struggle with the cook, who is then arrested by police.

Casts of The Maniac Cook

Marion Leonard

as Mrs. Holland

Harry Solter

as Mr. Holland

George Gebhardt

as Policeman #1

Mack Sennett

as Policeman #2

Anita Hendrie

as Margie, the Cook

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