The Hopes of Blind Alley (1914)

Directed by

Allan Dwan

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

20 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama set in a poor urban area. The story follows a man and the people around him as they deal with difficult circumstances.

somberquietperiodemotionalunderstatedsimple

What happens

The Hopes of Blind Alley is a 1914 American silent drama film directed (and co-written) by Allan Dwan and featuring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush and Lon Chaney. A still exists showing Lon Chaney as the Italian statuette vendor. The film is now considered to be lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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