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<i>The Suburbanite</i>

The Suburbanite

1904 American film

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]

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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

  • John Troiano

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


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