The Hierarchies of Love
About The Hierarchies of Love
A woman with a wicker basket crosses a public garden and lets a private carry it. A noncommissioned officer orders the private away, then has to excuse himself beside a street urinal, and she goes off on a passing officer's arm. By the river a senior officer sends that man on an errand and walks on with her himself.
Cast & crew
More about The Hierarchies of Love
Alice Guy directed the Gaumont short in 1906. The French title is La Hiérarchie dans l'amour. A surviving timing is 2 minutes 25 seconds.
Themes
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Each man loses her to the next rank up: private, sergeant, officer, then a senior officer with a heavier moustache and more braid.
- Guy had already made Militaires et nourrice (1904) and The Maid and the Officers (1906) on the same joke, a woman and a chain of soldiers.
- The film is played in a garden and along a river, not on a studio set.
Scenes
- The private is ordered off after a few steps, and the sergeant takes his place.
- The sergeant steps aside at a street urinal and an officer leaves with her.
- A senior officer sends the younger man away at the riverbank.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-la-hirarchie-dans-lamour)
