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The Black Viper (1908)

The Black Viper poster
Directed by
Wallace McCutcheon, Sr., Wallace McCutcheon Jr., D. W. Griffith
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
10 min
Rating
4.1 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A villain terrorizes a family. The film shows a conflict between an evil man and his victims in an early American setting.

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What happens

The Black Viper (aka La vipère noire in France) is a 1908 film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company which was based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, at the beginning of the 20th century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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