N° associato: 5105

USA. - 1912. - Biograph Company

VHS (11 min. + 16 min.) ; b/n, muto, didascalie in inglese

Abstract: Schede in inglese (Cineteca del Friuli)

THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY (Biograph, US, 31 October 1912) Dir.: D.W. Griffith; cast: Elmer Booth, Lillian Gish, Clara T. Bracey, Walter Miller, Alfred Paget; 35mm, 1030 ft., 18’ (16 fps), The Musuem of Modern Art. Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles. Snapper Kid mugs a musician in the hallway of his Lower East Side tenement, not knowing that his victim is the fiancé of the young seamstress Snapper has earlier discovered for himself. While the musician wanders off hoping to retrieve his wallet, the seamstress goes to a dancehall, where Snapper sees her again. Before he can talk to her, he catches a rival gang leader doping her drink, and the confrontation triggers a gang war. In the battle that follows, the musician encounters Snapper and wrestles his wallet back, retrieving the money he needs to marry his sweetheart. When Snapper rushes to her apartment to claim her for himself, she rejects him, but she lies to protect him from the police. — RM [DWG Project # 434] AN UNSEEN ENEMY (Biograph, US, 12 September 1912) Dir.: D.W. Griffith; cast: Dorothy Gish, Lillian Gish, Elmer Booth, Grace Henderson, Harry Carey; 35mm, 955 ft., 16’ (16 fps), National Film andTelevision Archive. Didascalie in inglese / English intertitles. Stampa / Printed 1985. Two girls, recently orphaned by the death of their father, welcome home their brother, who has sold a portion of their estate. He places the money in his father’s safe and departs for work. The younger sister’s boyfriend, about to leave for college, comes to say goodbye. Meanwhile, the maid and a confederate plan to rob the safe. Her accomplice arrives and climbs in a window while she locks the girls in the parlor next to the study. As the thief attempts to open the safe, the older sister telephones the brother’s office. Sticking a gloved hand in a stove port in the wall, the maid holds the girls at gunpoint, forcing them to break off the conversation. She turns to take a drink, enabling the younger sister to sneak up to the phone and speak to the brother. Rebuked by her confederate, the maid reinserts the gun in the hole and begins to shoot, breaking off the phone conversation a second time. The brother and his colleague commandeer a visitor’s car, and all three men ride off, but their last-minute rescue is delayed by a swinging bridge that opens just as the car moves onto it. Just as the safe is about to be blown open, the younger girl’s boyfriend walks by the house, discovers what is happening, and helps the girls to escape out the window. The men arrive just in time to catch the maid and her accomplice running away with the money. The boyfriend is rewarded with a kiss.

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