22 September 1908 Drama 9 mins
A group of collegiates decide to go for a splash. A lunatic, having escaped from a nearby asylum, heads for the surf, brandishing a knife. Innocent seaside fun becomes a struggle against a maniac on the water.
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Arthur V. Johnson as Tom Hudson
Linda Arvidson as Alice Fairchild
Charles Inslee as The Villain
Edward Dillon as Policeman
Mack Sennett as Policeman
George Gebhardt as At the Beach / Assaulted Man
Robert Harron as On Boardwalk
Florence Lawrence as At the Beach
Harry Solter as At the Beach
D.W. Griffith Director
Stanner E.V. Taylor Writer
D.W. Griffith Writer
Billy Bitzer Cinematography
Arthur Marvin Cinematography
United States 22 September 1908
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1908:
07 July 1908
Mack Sennett appears in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
09 June 1908
Stable hostler Joe loves his wife Annie, but she leaves him and their child for a wealthy gentleman, only to die destitute in London, where Joe's enduring love brings her solace in her final moments.
10 February 1908
A boy takes pictures of everything, including some embarrassing situations. When he projects the pictures on a wall for everyone to see, his father spanks him and smashes the camera.
01 January 1908
Three woman playing a game of catch leads to one of them exposing herself as she gets stuck whilst peering out the window.
28 September 1908
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
29 December 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a wedding guest in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
25 August 1908
A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows wedding plans to be made.
18 January 1908
A wealthy old alchemist and inventor has just perfected a motion picture camera with which he hopes to revolutionize the art of animated photography, and our story opens with the old man in his library studying out the plans of his invention.
15 December 1908
Mack Sennett appears as a guest and a man in the fight in this film produced by the Biograph Company.
01 December 1908
Bachelor Reggie writes his uncle that he has a wife and child, but then must produce them when the uncle visits.
26 June 1908
The widowed elderly mother of three adult children, two sons and a daughter, wishing to relieve herself of the burden of care of her property, decides to divide it up among her children.
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