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A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Cecil M. Hepworth
- Harassed father
- (as Cecil Hepworth)
Lindsay Gray
- Gypsy woman
- (uncredited)
Sebastian Smith
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAccording to the Guinness Book of World Records, this was the least expensive movie to produce. It cost $37.40.
- Alternate versionsAccording to "The Oxford History of World Cinema" this movie was so successful that Hepworth had to remake it twice to supply enough prints to meet demand. All with the same narrative, the original version is differentiable from the remakes via the scene where the nurse tells her boss that she lost the child. The original breaks the scene into two shots - the second shot being from a closer position. The two remakes contain only one shot, from the closer position, in that scene. One of the remakes is what is shown on the third volume of "The Movies Begin" series.
- ConnectionsEdited into Women Who Made the Movies (1992)
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First film with a dog in a starring role
The opening shot is that of Rover sitting near the baby of the family, probably just to establish that there is a close and protective relationship there.
Next the nurse is seen taking the baby for a stroll in his carriage. A woman comes up to the nurse and begs for money and is refused. When the nurse's attention is diverted, the angry woman steals the baby. The nurse is rightfully distraught and tells the mother. Rover overhears and goes out to search for the baby. In one of the first cases on film of a dog stereotyping he first searches the local tenement because he assumes a poor person did this. Not being a cop he can just bust down door after door looking until he comes upon the baby. The kidnapper shoos the dog away then gets drunk and goes to sleep. The dog then goes to get the parents so they can retrieve the baby.
It really was all in the family here. Cecil Hepworth directed the film and Mrs. Hepworth wrote the script. Cecil, his wife, and their baby star as the family in the film. Blair, who plays Rover, was the Hepworth family dog. Hepworth continued making films into the 1920s but could not make the transition into longer films with more complex narratives and his business went bankrupt in 1924.
This film does a good job of building suspense - the audience does not know where the kidnapper has taken the child or what she wants with her.
Next the nurse is seen taking the baby for a stroll in his carriage. A woman comes up to the nurse and begs for money and is refused. When the nurse's attention is diverted, the angry woman steals the baby. The nurse is rightfully distraught and tells the mother. Rover overhears and goes out to search for the baby. In one of the first cases on film of a dog stereotyping he first searches the local tenement because he assumes a poor person did this. Not being a cop he can just bust down door after door looking until he comes upon the baby. The kidnapper shoos the dog away then gets drunk and goes to sleep. The dog then goes to get the parents so they can retrieve the baby.
It really was all in the family here. Cecil Hepworth directed the film and Mrs. Hepworth wrote the script. Cecil, his wife, and their baby star as the family in the film. Blair, who plays Rover, was the Hepworth family dog. Hepworth continued making films into the 1920s but could not make the transition into longer films with more complex narratives and his business went bankrupt in 1924.
This film does a good job of building suspense - the audience does not know where the kidnapper has taken the child or what she wants with her.
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- AlsExGal
- Jul 3, 2023
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- Budget
- £7 (estimated)
- Runtime7 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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