MOVIE · 1913
The Riot
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
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Story
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
CAST
Featured cast
Roscoe ArbuckleCohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader
Mabel NormandMabel - Cohen's Daughter
Charles InsleeIrish Neighborhood Leader
Alice DavenportIrish Neighborhood Leader's Wife
Charles AveryIrishman
Billy JacobsOne of the Neighborhood Kids
Gordon GriffithOne of the Neighborhood Kids
Nick CogleyJewish Bomb ThrowerMORE TO EXPLORE
