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13 Washington Square

192870 minUnited States
DramaComedyRomance

Synopsis

A wealthy mother changes identities to prevent her son from marrying a grocer's daughter. Her plan brings a would-be thief, the young couple and several unexpected occupants together in a supposedly closed house.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
66:24
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Creator:Melville W. Brown · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsMelville W. Brown

Inspirations

The film adapts Leroy Scott's play No. 13 Washington Square. Its romantic conflict becomes a housebound farce in which social appearances repeatedly mislead the people involved.

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