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Trying to Get Arrested
(1909) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 344 feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: John R. Cumpson [the tramp], Anita Hendrie [the assaulted woman], Florence Lawrence [the nanny], Owen Moore [a passerby; and a man in the fight], Mack Sennett [the first tough], Herbert Prior [the second tough], Charles Inslee [the policeman], Arthur V. Johnson [the fugitive], Robert Harron [a man in the fight], David Miles [a man in the fight], Kate Bruce, Marion Leonard, Jeanie Macpherson
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Scenario by [?] D.W. Griffith and/or Mack Sennett?, from the short story “The Cop and the Anthem” by O. Henry. Cinematography by [?] G.W. Bitzer and/or Arthur Marvin? / © 31 March 1909 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H125118]. Released 5 April 1909; in a split-reel with The Road to the Heart (1909). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Comedy.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Strange as it may seem the poor tramp, who is the hero of this Biograph comedy, finds it hard indeed to get pinched. There is no doubt he could have gotten work, but it is against the rules of his order. The cold weather is pretty trying and he wishes to get under cover, if it has to be in the “jug,” so commits most ignoble and lawless deeds, but without success. The police simply ignore him, and often arrest an unoffending person in his stead. He becomes guilty of theft, assault, riot, disorderly conduct, and, in fact, everything but murder, but is still a bird of freedom. It’s no use, so despondently he makes his way to the woodyard, resolving to go to work, when a copper meets him at the gate and arrests him, just when he didn’t want it.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 17 December 2024.
References: Barry-Griffith p. 41; Spehr-American p. 4 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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