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The Suburbanite

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The Suburbanite
The Suburbanite
Directed byWallace McCutcheon
Written byFrank Marion
StarringJohn Troiano
CinematographyA.E. Weed
Production
company
Distributed byAmerican Mutoscope & Biograph Company
Release date
  • November 1904 (1904-11)
Running time
9 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

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.[1]

Plot

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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.

Cast

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  • John Troiano

Reception

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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".[2]

References

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  1. ^ "The Suburbanite". Silent Era. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  2. ^ Wojcik, Pamela Robertson (2004). Movie Acting, the Film Reader. Psychology Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-415-31024-6.
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