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Twin Brothers

1909 · 5 min Comedy
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

Two boys, twins, leave the old homestead to seek their fortune in the world. They go divergent roads, and are soon widely separated one from the other, but they grow lonesome and try to find each other's whereabouts, without success. We lose sight of Bill and Dick is seen up against it good and hard. For him the future looks like a chalk ring on a blackboard, until he happens to saunter along the Bowery, where the manager of a dime museum offers him a job to play the gorilla. It looks good so he accepts. It is pretty sort until the astute impresario decides to pull off an innovation: that is, a gorilla and lion in the same cage. Of course Dick objects most strenuously to this arrangement, but his objections are quailed with a treacherous looking run, so he is forced to share the same menagerie hallroom with the lion.

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📋 Film Details

Year 1909
Country United States of America
Genre Comedy
Director D.W. Griffith
Runtime 5 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs its comedy on the simple premise of a man in a gorilla suit forced to share a cage with a lion. It relies on silent-era physical humor and exaggerated reactions to build tension and laughs.

What lingers after the final frame is the sheer, ridiculous commitment to the bit—a testament to early cinema's love for straightforward, situational farce. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: D.W. Griffith

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