The Inner Circle
About The Inner Circle
A widower who lives with his small daughter is forced into the Inner Circle, and the gang chooses him by lot to bomb a rich Italian, Cataldo, after Cataldo takes a $5,000 demand to the police. The child is knocked down by a car and carried into Cataldo's house. The widower lights the fuse under the stairs, sees her through the window, and is knocked out before he can warn the police. He throws the bomb clear and is killed in the blast. The police arrest the society with what he tells them, and Cataldo and his wife keep the child.
Cast & crew
More about The Inner Circle
D. W. Griffith directed this Biograph short from a script by George Hennessy. The General Film Company released it on August 12, 1912. The Biograph Bulletin gives the rich Italian the surname Cataldo.
Themes
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed the short. The bomb is planted under the outside stairs of Cataldo's house.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
A print survives in the Library of Congress.
Notes
- Adolph Lestina plays the widower. J. Jiquel Lanoe plays Cataldo. Mary Pickford plays Cataldo's daughter. Jack Pickford plays a messenger.
- Charles Hill Mailes plays a gangster. Joseph McDermott and Alfred Paget play police agents. W. Christy Cabanne is in the gang.
- The cast also includes Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Crisp, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Gladys Egan, and Kate Toncray.
Scenes
- The society draws the widower's lot and orders him to plant the bomb.
- He sees his daughter through the window after he has lit the fuse.
- He throws the bomb clear and is killed by the explosion.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Inner circle (1912).webm)
