The Lonely Villa (1909) D. W. Griffith

The Lonely Villa is a thriller film directed by    • David Wark Griffith  
written by Mack Sennett and based on the play Au telephone by André de Lorde . It movie was produced by Biograph Company and released the 10th of June 1909.

In this film, Griffith makes masterful use of "intercutting". This technique is intended to express the contemporaneity between two or more actions and consists in building a sequence by alternating the scenes that compose it according to the scheme: A1, B1, A2, B2… etc. In this film, Griffith alternates not two but three different scenes: the women barricaded in the house (7:52), the thieves who try to enter (8:29), the father who runs to rescue them (9:52). Griffith passes from one scene to the other, creating a fast-paced rhythm that drags the viewer into a progressive whirlwind of suspense.
The intercutting technique of editing became common amongst American directors only from 1912.

Starring
Anthony O'Sullivan as A Burglar (0:12)
Herbert Prior as A Burglar (0:12)
Owen Moore - A Burglar (0:12)
David Miles as Robert Cullison (0:40)
Marion Leonard as Mrs. Robert Cullison (0:40)
Mary Pickford as the eldest Cullison daughter (0:40)
Gladys Egan as the youngest Cullison daughter (0:40)
Adele DeGarde as the second eldest Cullison daughter (0:40)
Mack Sennett as the Butler (0:44) and a Policeman
Anita Hendrie as the Maid (0:46)
Charles Avery guest at the Inn
John R. Cumpson as At the Inn
Arthur V. Johnson as At the Inn
Violet Mersereau as At the Inn

Directed by David Wark Griffith
Written by Mack Sennet and André de Lorde
Cinematography by Billy Bitzer and Arthr Marvin

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The French playwriter André de Lorde also wrote the screenplay for Maurice Tourneur 's movie Figures de cire :    • Figure di cera (1914) Maurice Tourneur  

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