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Mary Pickford.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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An Arcadian Maid
(1910) United States of America
B&W : One reel / 984 feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: Mary Pickford [Priscilla], Mack Sennett [the Italian peddlar], George O. Nicholls [the man of the house], Kate Bruce [the woman of the house], Frank Evans [the first man], William J. Butler [the second man], Charles Craig [a gambling hall patron], Edward Dillon [a gambling hall patron], Jack Dillon (John T. Dillon) [a gambling hall patron], Joseph Graybill [a gambling hall patron], Vivian Prescott [a gambling hall patron], Henry Lehrman [a gambling hall patron; and a train passenger], Francis J. Grandon [a train passenger], W. Chrystie Miller [a train passenger], Anthony O’Sullivan [a train passenger], Alfred Paget [a train passenger]
Biograph Company production; distributed by Biograph Company. / Scenario by Stanner E.V. Taylor. Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 3 August 1910 by Biograph Company [J143884]. Released 1 August 1910. / Biograph 35mm spherical format. / The production was shot on 22-23 and 25 June 1910 in the Biograph studio and on location in Westfield, New Jersey. The Biograph ‘AB’ logomark is seen on interior sets throughout the film.
Drama.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 13 August 1910, page ?] Fate sometimes overtakes those who betray trusting innocence and does it so forcibly that there can be no question of the result. Here is a villain who induces a trusting girl to commit a robbery. But his ill-gotten gains do him no good. In a brawl on the train he either falls or is thrown out, and later falls dead at the feet of the girl he has deceived. Just how he got to where the girl was in the woods is not quite clear, but perhaps for dramatic purposes it is not altogether necessary. She, realizing the probable results of taking her employer’s money, secures it from the body and returns it before the loss is discovered. In so much the audience can rejoice. If the object of the film is to show how easily innocence may be entrapped into wrong doing the success is marked. If it was the intention to show that punishment is almost certain to follow such villainy it is equally successful. Dramatically the film is good, and photographically it is up to the Biograph standard.
Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute/Mary Pickford collection) [35mm Biograph nitrate camera negative] and (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive, 16mm acetate duplicate positive]; and in the film holdings of the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education [35mm duplicate negative, 35mm duplicate positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Crime: Theft - Salesmen - Railroads: Trains
Listing updated: 30 April 2023.
References: Film credits, film viewing : Barry-Griffith p. 42; Blum-Silent p. 17; Eyman-Pickford p. 325; Niver-Early p. 12; Sinyard-Silent p. 73; Spehr-American p. 1 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb; Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.
Home video: DVD.
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