- Country: USA
- Genres: Romance, Short
- Release: 1912-05-09
- Director: D.W. Griffith
- Writers: George Hennessy
- Language: None | English
- Stars: Charles West , Mary Pickford , Charles Hill Mailes , Frank Opperman , Frank Evans , W.C. Robinson , W.C. Robinson , Robert Harron , Robert Harron , Mae Marsh , Christy Cabanne , Alfred Paget
- Runtime: 17 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: A Lodging for the Night (United States of America) , A Lodging for the Night
- Plot: Dick Logan, a young writer in search of local color, stops at a little border town in the Southwest and engages lodging at the Mexican Inn. Two tramps see the amount of money he has and plan to secure it. In the town he befriends a Mexican girl by stopping her uncle from beating her for having broken a water jar. That night, to while the time, he plays faro and breaks the bank, which greatly augments his already large amount of money. Retiring to his room, he is awakened by the efforts of the two tramps to get into the room. He steals out and asks for lodging for the night at a nearby house, which happens to be the home of the Mexican girl and her uncle. Here he gets real "local color," as the tramps have followed him and they enter the room through the window, while the Mexican, who also covets his money, enters through the door. The girl, however, saves him from harm, and it looks as if Dick had found a real heroine for a real romance.
- IMDB:tt0002318
A Lodging for the Night Cast · · · ALL
D.W. Griffith
Director
Charles West
Dick Logan
Mary Pickford
The Mexican Girl
Charles Hill Mailes
The Mexican Girl's Father
Frank Opperman
The Owner of the Gambling Hall
Frank Evans
The Gambler
W.C. Robinson
The Bartender / A Deputy
Robert Harron
The Victim / In Gambling Hall
Mae Marsh
First Mexican Couple - the Woman
Christy Cabanne
First Mexican Couple - the Man (as W. Christy Cabanne)
Alfred Paget
The Sheriff
Hector Dion
The Porter
William A. Carroll
A Tramp
Adolph Lestina
A Deputy