The Bandit's Waterloo
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Bandit's Waterloo |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1908 |
| length | 12 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Wark Griffith |
| script | David Wark Griffith |
| production | American Mutoscope and Biograph Company |
| camera | Arthur Marvin |
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The Bandit's Waterloo. The Outwitting of an Andalusian Brigand by a Pretty Senora : (German . The Waterloo Bandit The outwitting an Andalusian bandits by a pretty woman is) an American film drama of the director David Wark Griffith from the year 1908 . The screenplay was also written by David Wark Griffith, the silent film is a production of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company .
action
The Bandit's Waterloo is set in Andalusia in southern Spain and shows how a bandit leader is outwitted by a beautiful woman.
The mountains of Andalusia are controlled by a gang of outlaw privateers who are terrorizing the land and making traveling in the area a dangerous undertaking. The bandits lie in wait for innocent travelers who are robbed and often even murdered by them. This is how The Bandit's Waterloo begins with the gang who hide behind a rock with their leader and stop passers-by, get rid of their valuables and let them run again. After a short time, a carriage appears, in which there are an elderly man and a pretty young woman with their governess. The inevitable happens: the carriage is stopped by the bandits, the inmates robbed of jewelry and money, and the elderly gentleman and the governess have to continue their journey alone. The pretty young woman remains as a prisoner with the bandits.
The young woman becomes aware of her helplessness. Assuming that the gang leader is impressed by her beauty, she begins to wrap him around her finger. She manages that with ease, but she has to spend a lot more to elicit her jewels from him. While she tries, the police suddenly appear. At the sight of all the wealth, the police sergeant succumbs to the temptation, he takes everything and lets the robbers go with their prisoners.
The robbers come to a mountain farm. When the police sergeant appears, the young woman bribes the waitress in order to be able to serve the policeman in her place, who previously only saw her veiled. She lures the sergeant into an adjoining room, where he is overwhelmed, tied up and gagged by the robbers. With the jewels, the robbers and the young woman flee to another tavern. There the woman makes the gang leader drunk, takes back her jewelry and leaves a mocking letter to the amorous bandit. She leaves the place to return home and is visibly happy in anticipation of the bandit's suffering after he wakes up.
Production notes
The Bandit's Waterloo is a one-reeler on 35mm film that is 839 feet long . The film was registered with the United States Copyright Office on July 28, 1908 , and released in theaters on August 4, 1908.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Bandit's Waterloo . In: The Moving Picture World , Volume 3, No. 6, August 8, 1908, p. 108, digitized .
- ↑ The Bandit's Waterloo in the Internet Movie Database (English)