The Politician's Love Story
About The Politician's Love Story
Boss Tim Crogan sees another cartoon of himself in the Daily Bugle and takes a pistol to the office to shoot the cartoonist, Peters. He throws aside the screen marked Peters' Corner and finds a woman at the drawing board, already working on the next Crogan. He drops the rage and courts her. She sends him away. On the street a masher bothers her. Crogan knocks the man down, and she takes him.
Cast & crew
More about The Politician's Love Story
D. W. Griffith wrote and directed it for American Mutoscope and Biograph. Billy Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed it. Biograph released it on 22 February 1909. It runs 6 minutes.
Themes
Making
Griffith shot the short at Biograph with Sennett as the ward boss and Leonard behind the cartoonist's screen. The gun is in the office before anyone knows Peters is a woman.
Look
Billy Bitzer and Arthur Marvin photographed the Bugle office and the street where Crogan hits the masher.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Mack Sennett plays Boss Tim Crogan. Marion Leonard plays Peters, the cartoonist.
- Herbert Prior plays Crogan's friend. Griffith himself is a man in the first couple. Linda Arvidson, Florence Lawrence, and Arthur V. Johnson are also in the office and street scenes.
- The paper in the story is the Daily Bugle.
- A contemporary description has Crogan hunting a cartoonist he thinks is a man named Peters.
Scenes
- Crogan pulls down the screen labeled Peters' Corner and finds the cartoonist at work.
- He knocks down the masher who stops her in the street.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-the-politicians-love-story)
