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Article: The Musketeers of Pig Alley and Selected D.W. Griffith Biograph Shorts, 1912-1913. (video recording reviews)
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- Journal of Popular Film & Television
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Showing the versatility of both Griffith and Gish, this second volume of Biograph shorts issued by Kino International spotlights an early experimentation with film genres. The first two entries, The Musketeers of Pig Alley (the more famous of the two) and The Burglar's Dilemma, both filmed and released in 1912, reveal Griffith's exploration of the gangster film; most film historians consider Musketeers the forerunner or prototype for the entire gangster genre. This film also gave Lillian Gish an early opportunity to show what a consummate actress she was becoming, her work no doubt greatly influencing Griffith and leading to The Mothering Heart (contained in volume one of ...
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