With threats by the Camorra in all the newspapers, the women are terrified. When they see the shadow of a gun man threatening someone, they telephone the police.
There are no credits known for this early suspense movie, and that's a pity. That's because it makes use of two bits of technique that were highly unusual in its day. First, it uses shadows to indicate the threat, and terrifying shadows they are too. Second, and perhaps more important, it shows the women calling the police and them responding in a triptych window: women on the left, police sergeant on the right, and officers bicycling in response in the middle. This was two years before Lois Weber made use of the same technique in SUSPENSE.
There are no credits known for this early suspense movie, and that's a pity. That's because it makes use of two bits of technique that were highly unusual in its day. First, it uses shadows to indicate the threat, and terrifying shadows they are too. Second, and perhaps more important, it shows the women calling the police and them responding in a triptych window: women on the left, police sergeant on the right, and officers bicycling in response in the middle. This was two years before Lois Weber made use of the same technique in SUSPENSE.
