The Politician's Love Story (1909)

1909 · Silent film · 7 min · dir. D.W. Griffith

• Comedy
• Romance
• Drama

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Synopsis

A corrupt politician, on seeing a satirical cartoon in a newspaper, rushes to the paper's offices to shoot the cartoonist. On discovering the cartoonist is a pretty woman, he falls instantly in love and wastes no time in wooing her.

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Details

Director

D.W. Griffith

Writer

D.W. Griffith

Studio

American Mutoscope and Biograph Company

Released

1909-02-21

Running time

7 minutes

Cast & crew

• D.W. Griffith Director
• Mack Sennett
• Marion Leonard
• Herbert Prior
• Linda Arvidson
• George Gebhardt
• D.W. Griffith
• AAnita Hendrie
• Florence Lawrence

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