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One is Business, the Other Crime
(1912) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Charles H. West [the poor husband], Dorothy Bernard [the poor wife], Edwin August [the rich husband], Blanche Sweet [the rich wife], Frank Evans [the landlord], William A. Carroll [the rich man’s first foreman], Frank Opperman [the rich man’s second henchman], Kate Bruce [the first maid], Kate Toncray [the second maid], Robert Harron [the delivery boy], W.C. Robinson [the brickyard worker], [?] Mae Marsh?
Biograph Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by George Hennessy. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 1912 by Biograph Company. Released 25 April 1912. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in Biograph’s California studio on Georgia and Girard Streets in Los Angeles, California, in February 1912. The Before Hollywood Project restored the film’s original intertitles to restoration prints.
Drama.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive]; and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 21 May 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 43; Drew-Speaking p. 285; Leyda-Before pp. 10, 83, 145, 149; Sklar-Movie p. 109; Sloan-Loud pp. 31, 32, 150; Spehr-American p. 3 : Website-IMDb; Website-NFPF.
Home video: DVD.
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