The Wanderer
About The Wanderer
A wanderer plays a flute. The music brings quarreling lovers back together and stops a woman who is about to kill her husband.
Cast & crew
More about The Wanderer
D. W. Griffith directed and wrote it. G. W. Bitzer photographed. Biograph production, distributed by General Film. Released in the United States on 3 May 1913. Original length 1,003 feet, about 15 to 16 minutes. Wikidata lists 17 minutes. A circulating fragment runs about 6 minutes 26 seconds.
Themes
Making
A one-reel Biograph fantasy in which the flute, not a chase, changes what the other characters do.
Look
G. W. Bitzer photographed it.
Preservation
Prints exist in private collections. A fragment of about six and a half minutes from the Eye Filmmuseum is on Wikimedia Commons. The original release was 1,003 feet.
Notes
- Henry B. Walthall plays the wanderer. Charles Hill Mailes plays the father. Christy Cabanne plays the brother. Kate Bruce plays the old woman.
- Lionel Barrymore and Claire McDowell play the lovers. Mae Marsh plays another couple's daughter as an adult. John T. Dillon plays a crafty merchant. Charles West plays a friar.
- Also cast: Kate Toncray, Frank Opperman, and Walter Miller.
- Not the same film as Olaf—An Atom (1913), a Harry Carey Biograph short later reissued as The Wanderer, which Griffith did not direct.
- Extracts were used in Flicker Flashbacks No. 2, Series 5 (1947).
- The Eye Filmmuseum fragment is on Wikimedia Commons under file name The Wanderer - D.W. Griffiths - 1913, Biograph - EYE FLM73625 - OB 685547.webm.
Scenes
- The wanderer's flute brings the quarreling lovers back together.
- The same music stops a wife before she can kill her husband.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (The Wanderer - D.W. Griffiths - 1913, Biograph - EYE FLM73625 - OB 685547.webm)
