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The Black Viper

190811 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

A man protects a young woman from a thug, who retaliates by kidnapping him. She gathers neighbours to follow the attackers into the mountains, where their captive faces a burning cabin and a fight on its roof.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
10:02
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

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

Languages and subtitles

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Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith and Wallace McCutcheon · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsD. W. GriffithWallace McCutcheon

Behind the scenes

The Biograph short builds its action around an attack, a pursuit and an urgent rescue. Griffith places the woman's effort to gather help at the centre of that movement.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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  • D. W. Griffith — Unknown author Unknown author; This image has been extracted from another file · Public domain
  • Mack Sennett — Author/source credit not supplied in Commons metadata; file page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MackSennett1910.jpg · Public domain

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