Short film
The Intruder
1914 · 15 min
A quiet, earnest silent melodrama of rural innocence and city temptation, unfolding with gentle simplicity and a wistful sense of loss.
- Directed by
- Wallace Reid
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Wallace Reid, Dorothy Davenport, Ed Brady
- Overview
- Much to the delight of the simple old father, his daughter becomes engaged to a big-hearted mountaineer. He builds their hut in the wilderness, and she is happy, though she often dreams of the great world outside. Then comes the intruder from the city, a man of the world. He obtains hoard at the girl's home. He blinds her eyes to the beautiful things of the; woods with his talk of pretty places and things of the great world without. He tempts and wins her away from the big-hearted backwoodsman. The young mountaineer, who has been working on his cabin, returns and finds the old man dozing and the girl gone.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, romantic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, betrayal, isolation, family
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Wallace Reid
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Starring
- Wallace Reid, Dorothy Davenport, Ed Brady
