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One Is Business, the Other Crime

5.8 15 mins Drama   1912
American Mutoscope & Biograph  
Director(s): D.W. Griffith

Griffith intercuts between the lives of two couples married on the same day. One couple is rich, the other poor. Time passes, and in desperation over joblessness, the poor husband attempts to burgle a home, only to be captured at gunpoint by the mistress of the house. It is the home of the rich couple. While holding the poor intruder at gunpoint, the rich wife accidentally discovers evidence implicating her own husband in a bribery scheme.

Casts of One Is Business, the Other Crime

Charles West

as Poor Husband

Dorothy Bernard

as Poor Wife

Edwin August

as Rich Husband

Blanche Sweet

as Rich Wife

Frank Evans

as The Landlord

William A. Carroll

as The Rich Man's First Foreman

Frank Opperman

as The Rich Man's Second Foreman

Kate Bruce

as First Maid

Kate Toncray

as Second Maid

Robert Harron

as The Delivery Boy

W.C. Robinson

as The Brickyard Worker

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