How They Rob Men in Chicago
AKA [How They Welcome Strangers in Chicago], [How They Entertain Strangers in Chicago]
(1900) American
B&W : [?] 28, 31 or 165? feet
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon

Cast: (unknown)

American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. / Cinematography by Arthur Marvin. / © 10 April 1902 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H16335]. Released April 1900. / Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format. / The production was shot on Biograph Studio rooftop at 841 Broadway in New York, New York, on 24 April 1900.

Comedy.

Synopsis: [American Mutoscope & Biograph Company Picture Catalogue, November 1902, p. ?] : A burlesque on the work of highwaymen in Chicago. An elderly gentleman is sandbagged and robbed by a thug, who inadvertently leaves some money on the victim’s prostrate body. A policeman happening along, takes the money and passes by without paying any attention to the plight of the victim.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (paper print collection) [35mm paper positive] and (American Film Institute / Cecil Miller collection) [35mm positive].

Keywords: Criminals: Thieves - Money - Police: Policemen - USA: Illinois: Chicago

Listing updated: 29 September 2007.

References: Film viewing : Leyda-Before pp. 81, 102; Musser-Emerge p. 3; Sloan-Loud pp. 20, 42, 149 : Website-AFI.

Home Video: DVD.