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The Kleptomaniac

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1905 · 10 min Crime
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

A well-dressed woman leaves her home and takes a carriage to a department store. While she is in the store, she steals several items, and is caught by store employees. Meanwhile, a poor woman with two small children steals a loaf of bread out of desperation, and she is quickly caught and arrested. Both women are taken to the police station and then into court, to see what penalty each of them must face.

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Year 1905
Country United States of America
Genre Crime
Director Edwin S. Porter
Runtime 10 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (14 votes)

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Edwin S. Porter constructs a brief yet potent social drama, relying on parallel editing and expressive pantomime. It explores the hypocrisy of bourgeois justice by contrasting two legally identical but morally disparate crimes.

What lingers after the final frame is a stark, silent indictment of a system that punishes need while excusing greed. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Edwin S. Porter

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