L'Intruse
About L'Intruse
A dying man in New York writes his parents, asks their pardon, and asks them to take in his wife and child. Only his mother is still alive. She and the child sail for their new home and fall in with a gang on the ship. The mother is held. The child gets away and is put to selling flowers by a hard couple. One of the gang moves into the grandmother's house pretending to be the son's widow. The police break it up.
Cast & crew
More about L'Intruse
Louis Feuillade directed the Gaumont melodrama. A viewing times it at 37 minutes and calls it four reels. René Navarre, Renée Carl, and Louis Leubas lead the billed cast. Jeanne Briey and a player billed as Devalence are also listed. The surviving print has no intertitles. A letter at the start carries the son's request.
Themes
Making
The print that circulates tells the story in pantomime. The son's letter is the one written document that sets the grandmother, the ship, and the gang in motion.
Music
Silent. The circulating print has no intertitles.
Preservation
A print survives without intertitles.
Notes
- The Spanish title used in some listings is La intrusa.
- A viewer of the Archive print notes there is not a single title card, and that the letter does the work of the opening.
- The false widow is installed in the grandmother's house while the real daughter-in-law is held.
- The child selling flowers is the kidnapped girl, not a separate street waif.
- Feuillade was already turning out features and serials for Gaumont in 1913. Fantômas began that year.
Scenes
- The dying man writes his mother to take in his wife and child.
- On the ship the gang separates mother and child.
- The girl sells flowers while another woman sits in the grandmother's house as the widow.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-lintruse)
