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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1520

The Inner Circle

191217 minUnited States

Synopsis

An extortion gang forces a widower to plant a bomb at a wealthy man's home. Just after lighting the fuse, he realizes that his own young daughter has been taken inside by the intended victim's family.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 23:36
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

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

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · D. W. Griffith · Public domain

Cast

Mary Pickford

Blanche Sweet

DirectorsD. W. Griffith

Behind the scenes

The drama sets two households of different means against the gang's coercion. Their unexpected connection transforms an assigned act of violence into an urgent rescue.

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Mary Pickford — Rufus Porter Moody · Public domain
Blanche Sweet — Hartsook · Public domain

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