The Suburbanite

Last updated

The Suburbanite
The Suburbanite
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
Written by Frank Marion
StarringJohn Troiano
CinematographyA.E. Weed
Production
company
Distributed byAmerican Mutoscope & Biograph Company
Release date
  • November 1904 (1904-11)
Running time
9 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent

The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive. [1]

Contents

Plot

The film is about a family who move to the suburbs, hoping for a quiet life. Things start to go wrong, and the wife gets violent and starts throwing crockery, leading to her arrest.

Cast

Reception

Pamela Robertson Wojcik considers the film to be a landmark film for actors, noting that the "comic characters had assumed a more central position in the mise-en-scene", and as a result, the actor's skills were "increasingly called upon to create a rudimentary character". [2]

References

  1. ↑ "The Suburbanite". Silent Era. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  2. ↑ Wojcik, Pamela Robertson (2004). Movie Acting, the Film Reader. Psychology Press. p. 51. ISBN   978-0-415-31024-6.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.