The Cricket on the Hearth (1914)

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family is visited by a cricket whose chirping brings comfort and good fortune. Based on a Charles Dickens story, this silent short film follows a poor toymaker and his wife through a series of emotional trials.

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What happens

The Cricket on the Hearth è un cortometraggio muto del 1914 prodotto dalla Biograph Company. La regia non è firmata. Il film, distribuito dalla General Film Company, uscì nelle sale l'8 settembre 1909. Remake di The Cricket on the Hearth, tratto dal racconto di Charles Dickens e diretto da David W. Griffith. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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