In all likeliness an inspiration for Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), Terrible Anguish tells the brief and tragic tale of a family being torn apart while the husband is away at work.
Watch the official Terrible Anguish 1906 trailer in HD below.
France 09 March 1906
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1906:
29 June 1906
A train traveling through the Rockies is held up and boarded by two thugs. They rob the wealthy occupants at gunpoint and then make their getaway by handcar.
15 August 1906
The title reads "Hailing Drags". You'd expect some sort of travois affair, but it turns out to be mules hailing sugar cane loaded onto wheeled flats.
02 February 1906
Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's return from his voyage to La Abufera (Valencia).
01 January 1906
One of the first Russian animated films, created by choreographer Alexander Shiryaev in the second half of the 1900s.
02 June 1906
Early film of a crowded street scene in an unidentified Indian city.
01 August 1906
A bunch of people traveling by foot or on horseback past the camera in Hawaii.
01 February 1906
Spanish short documentary about King Alfonso XII's visit to La Albufera (Valencia).
06 September 1906
A camera starts on a sloppy scene: people walking around, a building that's seen better days, palm trees, with fronds waving in the breeze.
06 March 1906
A crazy, rude musician gets some supernatural comeuppance.
16 November 1906
This one-reel documentary is pretty much what it says in the title. Cavalrymen ride their horses, first over low hedges, then over increasingly rough terrain, until by the end they are sliding down hills to cross a stream and going into caves.
01 January 1906
It is a dramatic film, with its colossal explosion and smouldering remains. Within seconds of the chimney's collapse, crowds swarm in to inspect the site; issues of the crowd's health and safety are clearly not a concern, as people smile, wave and salute the camera.
21 December 1906
The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.
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