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Twin Brothers
(1909) United States of America
B&W : Split-reel / 437 feet
Directed by D.W. Griffith
Cast: David Miles [the father], Arthur V. Johnson [the first brother], Herbert Prior [the second brother], Linda Arvidson [a museum visitor], John R. Cumpson [a museum visitor], Adele de Garde [a museum visitor], Anita Hendrie [a museum visitor], Charles Inslee [a museum visitor], Owen Moore [a museum visitor], Anthony O’Sullivan [a museum visitor], Charles Avery [a man in the bar, Mack Sennett
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Scenario by [?] Stanner E.V. Taylor? Cinematography by Arthur Marvin. / © 14 April 1909 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H125730]. Released 26 April 1909; in a split-reel with Lucky Jim (1909). / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? Two boys, twins, leave the old homestead to seek their fortune in the world. They go divergent roads, and are soon widely separated one from the other, but they grow lonesome and try to find each other’s whereabouts, without success. We lose sight of Bill and Dick is seen up against it good and hard. For him the future looks like a chalk ring on a blackboard, until he happens to saunter along the Bowery, where the manager of a dime museum offers him a job to play the gorilla. It looks good so he accepts. It is pretty sort until the astute impresario decides to pull off an innovation: that is, a gorilla and lion in the same cage. Of course Dick objects most strenuously to this arrangement, but his objections are quailed with a treacherous looking run, so he is forced to share the same menagerie hallroom with the lion. Now the lion is as frightened at the gorilla as the gorilla is at the lion, for they are both fakes. On discovering each other’s harmlessness they both decide to mutiny, and upon throwing aside their disguise they, no, yes, it is, Dick, Bill, and they are in each other’s arms.
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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