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Suspense

191310 minUnited States
Drama
Video edition
Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
This copy runs
10:10
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Lois Weber / Phillips Smalley · Public domain

Synopsis

Alone with her baby after a servant leaves, a woman notices a stranger approaching the house. Her telephone warning sends her husband racing home in a stolen car. As the intruder breaks in and the police pursue the car, several lines of danger converge on the threatened household.

Cast

DirectorsPhillips SmalleyLois Weber

Behind the scenes

Lois Weber wrote the scenario, plays the mother and shares directing credit with Phillips Smalley. Split-screen composition and a car chase connect simultaneous events, giving the short thriller an unusually concentrated visual structure.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 15, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

  • Lois Weber — http://home.comcast.net/~flickhead/The-Blot.html ( Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons. ) · Public domain

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