The Telephone Girl and the Lady

19131913
17m

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5.5/10

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Harry Carey and Claire McDowell in The Telephone Girl and the Lady (1913)

Short Drama

A telephone operator hears a robbery in progress over the 'phone and goes in search of help.A telephone operator hears a robbery in progress over the 'phone and goes in search of help.A telephone operator hears a robbery in progress over the 'phone and goes in search of help.

IMDb RATING

5.5/10

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

930,957

645,938

Director
- D.W. Griffith
Writers
- Edward Acker(play)
- Anita Loos
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Trivia
Prints of this film survive in the Library of Congress and the UCLA Film and Television Archives.

Connections
Referenced in Carl Laemmle (2019)

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6/10

Griffith sure seemed to like putting his ladies in peril!

I have seen hundreds of short films by D. W. Griffith and one common theme I have noticed in these early films are women in peril. So often, the likes of the Gish sisters or Mary Pickford are being attacked by evil rascals. In "The Telephone Girl and the Lady", the lady, Claire McDowell, is attacked by a masked thief and her only hope is if the telephone operator (Mae Marsh) hears her pleas for help and summons the police.

This is a decent and entertaining short film. My only complaint is that the first half could have been tightened up a bit and the plot takes a while to actually get going. Otherwise, pretty impressive for 1913.

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