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The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
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31 October 1912 (USA)
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One good turn deserves another.
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A young wife and her musician husband live in poverty in a New York City tenement. The husband's job requires him to go away for for a number of days...
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Not bad, but am I missing something?!
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(Credited cast)| Elmer Booth | ... | Snapper Kid, Musketeers gang leader | |
| Lillian Gish | ... | The Little Lady | |
| Clara T. Bracy | ... | The Little Lady's Mother | |
| Walter Miller | ... | The Musician | |
| Alfred Paget | ... | Rival Gang Leader | |
| John T. Dillon | ... | Policeman | |
| Madge Kirby | ... | The Little Lady's Friend / In Alley | |
| Harry Carey | ... | Snapper's Sidekick | |
| Robert Harron | ... | Rival Gang Member / In Alley / At Dance | |
| W.C. Robinson | ... | Rival Gang Member (as Spike Robinson) | |
| Adolph Lestina | ... | The Bartender / On Street | |
| Jack Pickford | ... | Rival Gang Member / At Dance | |
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| Gertrude Bambrick | ... | At Dance | |
| Lionel Barrymore | ... | The Musician's Friend | |
| Kid Broad | (as 'Kid' Broad) | ||
| Kathleen Butler | ... | On Street / At Dance | |
| Christy Cabanne | ... | At Dance (as W. Christy Cabanne) | |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Rival Gang Member | |
| Frank Evans | ... | At Dance | |
| 'Harlem Tom' Evans | |||
| Dorothy Gish | ... | Frizzy-haired woman in street | |
| Walter P. Lewis | ... | In Alley / At Dance | |
| Walter Long | |||
| Antonio Moreno | ... | Musketeers Gang Member / At Dance | |
| Marie Newton | ... | At Dance | |
| J. Waltham | ... | In Alley | |
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17 min (16 fps)
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This film heavily influenced Martin Scorsese in the making of his own gangster films, Goodfellas (1990) and Gangs of New York (2002). It was picked by Scorsese for his 2005 tribute at Beaubourg, centre d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou (1977) in Paris, France. Biograph is the oldest movie company in America and, as of 2009, is still in existence.
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Featured in 100 Years at the Movies (1994) (TV)
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It's very odd. I just read through the two summaries and found they weren't exactly like the movie I saw. It is very possible there are multiple versions out there (that's true of MANY of Chaplin's shorts)--film distributors and theaters often chopped the films apart in those days. Perhaps those who saw it and wrote summaries saw versions with more or different inter-title cards, as there was really nothing about two rival gangs in the film I saw. Instead, a gang terrorizes a neighborhood and steals the money a man has saved. Later the man who was robbed sees the gang members in a dance hall. He and what appear to be his friends (not a rival gang) follow the gang and they all have a shootout--and the cops come to save the day. Now that I think about it, whose friends would just happen to have guns?