Gretchen the Greenhorn
About Gretchen the Greenhorn
John Van Houck and his daughter Gretchen come from Holland. He takes up engraving again in a tenement, and she falls for Pietro, an Italian neighbor. Rodgers, a crook, tricks John into cutting a plate for counterfeit bills and talks Gretchen into passing them. When father and daughter try to expose him, he locks them in a hideout. The Garrity children see the kidnapping, warn Pietro, and he brings the police.
Cast & crew
More about Gretchen the Greenhorn
Chester M. Franklin and Sidney A. Franklin directed it. Bernard McConville wrote the story. Fine Arts made it and Triangle released it on 3 September 1916, in five reels. A restored copy runs 58 minutes. Dorothy Gish plays Gretchen. Ralph Lewis plays her father. New York opened it on 11 September 1916 at the Eighty-first Street Theatre.
Themes
Preservation
Galen Biery gave the only known complete copy to the Hollywood Studio Museum in 1991. UCLA showed a restoration in 1993. Prints are at the Museum of Modern Art and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Notes
- Frank Bennett plays Pietro. Eugene Pallette plays Rodgers. Kate Bruce plays the widow Garrity. Elmo Lincoln plays a ship's captain.
- Georgie Stone plays little Nicky Garrity.
- Aside from Gish, the actors are named in the intertitles as they appear, not on a cast card.
- The 2004 DVD set More Treasures from American Film Archives includes it.
Scenes
- Rodgers talks Gretchen into passing the false bills.
- The Garrity children see the pair dragged off and run for Pietro.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-gretchen-the-greenhorn)
- Museum of Modern Art
- UCLA Film and Television Archive
- More Treasures from American Film Archives (DVD, 2004)
