The Lonely Villa (1909)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

drama film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rated

G

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 68 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family is attacked in their isolated home. The father tries to save them from a distance.

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What happens

The Lonely Villa is a 1909 American short silent crime drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring David Miles, Florence Lawrence, and Mary Pickford in one of her first film roles. It is based on the 1901 French play Au Téléphone (At the Telephone) by André de Lorde. A print of The Lonely Villa survives and is currently in the public domain. The Lonely Villa was produced by the Biograph Company. It was released on June 10, 1909, along with another D. W. Griffith split-reel film, A New Trick. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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