The Passer-by
About The Passer-by
A bachelor dinner is one guest short. The host asks a man off the street to sit in. Pressed for a story, the stranger says that years ago, at his own dinner the night before his wedding, a note arrived: the woman had married someone else an hour before. He thought of suicide and then set out to forget her. At the end of the telling he sees her photograph, asks who she is, and is told she is the host's mother. The card bears her son's name. He tears it up and leaves.
Cast & crew
More about The Passer-by
Oscar Apfel directed this Edison one-reeler. Henry Cronjager photographed it. Marc McDermott plays the passer-by, with Miriam Nesbitt and George Lessey. Wikidata times it at 15 minutes. Moving Picture World printed the synopsis. IMDb lists a release of 21 June 1912.
Themes
Look
Henry Cronjager photographed the dinner and the story the stranger tells.
Preservation
A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Notes
- The missing guest's note is what opens the empty chair.
- The woman who jilted him is the host's mother.
- A copy is on the Internet Archive.
Scenes
- At his own bachelor dinner he reads that she has married another man an hour earlier.
- He looks at the host's card, sees the son's name, and tears it up.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-passer-by)
