One Is Business, the Other Crime
About One Is Business, the Other Crime
Two couples marry on the same day. One household is rich, the other poor. Out of work, the poor husband tries to burgle the rich house and is stopped at gunpoint by the rich wife. While she holds him, she finds papers that tie her own husband to a bribery scheme.
Cast & crew
More about One Is Business, the Other Crime
D. W. Griffith directed. George Hennessy wrote the scenario. The General Film Company distributed the Biograph release. Silent Era says the picture was shot in the Los Angeles studio in February 1912. The Before Hollywood Project later restored the original intertitles.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the cross-cutting between the two households.
Preservation
Prints survive at the Library of Congress, including a paper print, and at the Museum of Modern Art.
Notes
- Charles West plays the poor husband and Dorothy Bernard the poor wife.
- Edwin August plays the rich husband and Blanche Sweet the rich wife.
- Frank Evans is the landlord. Robert Harron appears as a delivery boy.
- It is a one-reel film.
Also available
- Internet Archive (OneIsBusinessTheOtherIsCrime)
- Library of Congress
- Museum of Modern Art
