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A Terrible Discovery
(1911) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Wilfred Lucas [the district attorney], Edna Foster [the district attorney’s son], Charles Hill Mailes [Dick], Kate Bruce [the housekeeper], J. Jiquel Lanoe [the rescuer], Frank Evans [one of the district attorney’s friends], Adolph Lestina [one of the district attorney’s friends; a thug], W.C. Robinson [a thug], Charles H. West [a thug], Charles Gorman [a policeman], Alfred Paget [a policeman]
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Edward Acker. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / Released 21 December 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Taunted by the gang over the conviction of his brother by the District Attorney, Dick swears to make the attorney suffer. His plan is a novel one, which might have succeeded but for the daring of the lawyer’s ten-year-old son. Dick disguises himself as an old woman, and owing to the attorney’s benevolent nature, Dick finds it easy to gain entrance into the house by feigning illness. The lawyer is in the house with only the boy, who is in his own room on the second floor. It looks for a time that Dick will be successful in perpetrating his dire design, but the boy suggests that his father lower him by a rope from the window. This is a perilous move, but the boy bravely undertakes it. The youngster once outside, races off and brings a couple of mounted police to the rescue.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Female impersonation
Listing updated: 27 December 2022.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Everson-American pp. 46-47; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb.
Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.
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