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Release Date:
4 February 1909 (USA) moreGenre:
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An unscrupulous tourist plots to steal the famous diamond, "The Light of the World," tricking a young woman into helping him. She is caught and imprisoned, while he prepares to sell the diamond and make his getaway. | add synopsisUser Comments:
The Cinematic Daniel Defoe moreCast
(Credited cast) | Harry Solter | ... | A Tourist |
| George Gebhardt | ... | A Guard |
 | Florence Lawrence | ... | The Guard's Sweetheart |
| David Miles | ... | The Guard's Sweetheart's Father |
| Charles Inslee | ... | An Unscrupulous Hindu |
| Arthur V. Johnson | ... | Executioner |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| John R. Cumpson | ... | Tourist |
| Edward Dillon | ||
| Robert Harron | ... | Native Servant |
| Anita Hendrie | ... | Tourist |
| Marion Leonard | ... | Dancer (unconfirmed) |
| Owen Moore | ||
| Mack Sennett | ... | A Guard / A Servant / Hotel Manager |
| Dorothy West | ... | Tourist |
| Herbert Yost | ... | Tourist |
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In all of these short films that the 34 year old D.W. Griffith made in 1909, he created a vocabulary for film-making like Daniel Defoe did for novel writing. I don't particularly like this offering in the same that I didn't like 'Robinson Crusoe', but I did feel that I could do it better in the same way that I felt that I could rewrite 'Crusoe' in an improved way. What this film needed was a trans-valuation of viewpoint so that it could be digested more easily for contemporary audiences. As it stands, it is unpalatable, not because of the period or the subject matter, but just the point of view. Opinions will always shift from generation to generation, but what may have been acceptable to Griffith's generation is not so now.