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Fultah Fisher's Boarding House

192212 minUnited States
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

At a sailors' boarding house, Anne of Austria becomes interested in a newly arrived seaman despite her relationship with Salem Hardieker. Rejection and jealousy provoke a confrontation with fatal consequences.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
11:52
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 · Frank Capra / Walter Montague / Rudyard Kipling · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFrank Capra

Inspirations

Frank Capra adapted Rudyard Kipling's poem The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding-House for his first film as a director. He also wrote and edited the production, which was filmed in San Francisco.

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