The Suburbanite

The Suburbanite
The Suburbanite
Directed by	Wallace McCutcheon
Written by	Frank Marion
Starring	John Troiano
Cinematography	A.E. Weed
Production company	American Mutoscope & Biograph Company
Distributed by	American Mutoscope & Biograph Company
Release date	November 1904 (1904-11)
Running time	9 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent

The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.^[1]

Plot

The film is about a family who move to the suburbs, hoping for a quiet life. Things start to go wrong, and the wife gets violent and starts throwing crockery, leading to her arrest.

Cast

• John Troiano

Reception

Pamela Robertson Wojcik considers the film to be a landmark film for actors, noting that the "comic characters had assumed a more central position in the mise-en-scene", and as a result, the actor's skills were "increasingly called upon to create a rudimentary character".^[2]

References

1. "The Suburbanite". Silent Era. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
2. Wojcik, Pamela Robertson (2004). Movie Acting, the Film Reader. Psychology Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-415-31024-6.

External links

• The Suburbanite at IMDb