The Suburbanite
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Director Wallace McCutcheon Language Silent | 5.6/10 IMDb Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date November 1904 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.
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Plot
The film is about a family who move to the suburbs, hoping for a quiet life. Things start to go wrong, and the wife gets violent and starts throwing crockery, leading to her arrest.
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Reception
Pamela Robertson Wojcik considers the film to be a landmark film for actors, noting that the "comic characters had assumed a more central position in the mise-en-scene", and as a result, the actor's skills were "increasingly called upon to create a rudimentary character".
References
The Suburbanite WikipediaThe Suburbanite IMDb The Suburbanite themoviedb.org