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Burglars at Work

19043 minFrance
ComedyCrime

Synopsis

Two thieves enter a house through its roof while the owner leaves to summon the police. Rats, ladders and windows complicate the burglary, but the intruders still find another use for their victim's bicycle.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
2:45
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Gaston Velle / Segundo de Chomón · Public domain

DirectorsGaston Velle

Behind the scenes

Gaston Velle directed this Pathé comic scene. A later remake adds a pursuit that should not be confused with the ending of this earlier version.

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