So Near, Yet So Far
About So Near, Yet So Far
The young woman (Mary Pickford) wears another man's fraternity pin and ignores shy Howard (Walter Miller), though she smiles back from her carriage. Her father sends him away, a rival (Robert Harron) walks her off, and the two meet again as guests of a rich couple, where the host gets Howard drunk at his club, hides him for the night, and sets the clocks back. In the morning the host drops a purse of money. Two thieves climb through the window after she finds it. Howard, locked in his room, comes in by that window, punches one thief out to a policeman, and still has to be introduced before she will take his hand.
Cast & crew
More about So Near, Yet So Far
D. W. Griffith directed George Hennessy's script for the Biograph Company. The General Film Company distributed it on September 30, 1912.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the Biograph short. Projected at 16 frames a second, it runs 17 minutes.
Music
Silent, with English intertitles.
Preservation
Prints survive at the Museum of Modern Art and the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education.
Notes
- Elmer Booth and Harry Carey play the thieves. Charles Hill Mailes is the rich man in the other town, and Claire McDowell is his wife.
- Lionel Barrymore, Antonio Moreno, W. Christy Cabanne, and Courtenay Foote are among the men at the club. Dorothy Gish and Lillian Gish play friends.
- Wikipedia marks L. M. Wells as the young woman's father and flags that credit as unconfirmed.
Scenes
- The rich man sets the clocks back so his wife will not be angry at the hour.
- Howard climbs through the window and punches a thief out of it.
- She runs from him until the host introduces them, and they shake hands.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (So Near Yet So Far 1912 DW Griffith.ogv)
