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Availability
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Programme Notes
Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish
Director: D.W. Griffith
Production Company: American Biograph USA, 1912
Duration: 16 minutes
Film Print: B&W print available from Photoplay Productions
(Film Speed: 16 frames per second)
Premiere with Davis's score: 1983, London
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A D.W Griffith thriller short in which two girls are trapped and shot at by burglars. It was Lillian Gish's movie debut. She starred with her sister, Dorothy, after a chance meeting with Griffith moments before filming.
Carl Davis translates the style of piano improvisation into a trio texture which admirably evokes the film's melodramatic sentimentality.