18 December 1908 Drama 12 mins
After a judge (Harry Solter) does his job and sentences a man, a gypsy woman (Marion Leonard) erupts in vehement protests and has to be taken forcefully out of the courtroom. Later the gypsy follows the judge to his home and plots a vicious revenge on his wife (Florence Lawrence).
Watch the official An Awful Moment 1908 trailer in HD below.
George Gebhardt as Matteo Rettazzi / Policeman
Marion Leonard as Fiammetta, Matteo's Wife
Harry Solter as Judge Mowbray
Florence Lawrence as Mrs. Mowbray
Gladys Egan as The Mowbrays' Daughter
Linda Arvidson as The Maid
Gertrude Robinson as Woman in Court
Mack Sennett as Policeman / Man in Court
United States 18 December 1908
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Silent Hall of Fame has created a Silent Gems Collection of rare and for the first time available films with our stars as well as other silent masterpieces.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
03 September 1908
In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder).
25 October 1908
Female magicians turn people into origami roosters and vice versa.
03 August 1908
It depicts the notorious criminal incident that had occured in Rio de Janeiro.
16 October 1908
The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home.
25 July 1908
A Seventeenth Century romance in which an eloping couple try to escape the wrath of the girl's father.
01 February 1908
Documents one of the most important wrestling matches of the early 20th century between the legendary Estonian strongman Georg Hackenschmidt and the American Joe Rogers.
25 April 1908
A poor family, suffering from a lack of food, plan to sell their dog to gain some extra income. Before they act on their plan, the dog discovers some buried jewels.
01 January 1908
A kabuki scene starring actors Ichikawa Udanji an Uchikawa Unosuke.
06 October 1908
The mishaps of a man who steps into the street wearing his brand-new white suit, and who instantly encounters every conceivable insult to his suit's integrity: a coalman bumps into him, a waiter spills food on him, a painter walks into him.
03 December 1908
There's a chemistry lab, in which one or two people ingest the wrong drug -- apparently -- and have a seriously bad trip.
02 November 1908
Whirling and frenzied, dances symbolizing life suddenly vanish to give way to macabre circles, evolving in flames and terrifying scenes reminiscent of Hans Holbein's famous Dance of Death in the Basel cemetery.
08 February 1908
About an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, the forced removal by the British of the Acadian people from the present day Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island - parts of an area also known as Acadia.
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