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The Unfaithful Wife
(1903) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by (unknown)
Cast: Kathryn Osterman [the wife]
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company production; distributed by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and Kleine Optical Company. / Cinematography by G.W. Bitzer. / © 28 July 1903 by American Mutoscope & Biograph Company [H33877, H33878, H33879]. Released July 1903. / [?] Mutoscope 68mm spherical 1.36:1 format? / The film was also released in three parts: part one as The Unfaithful Wife: The Lover (51 feet), part two as The Unfaithful Wife: The Fight (65 feet), and part three as The Unfaithful Wife: Murder and Suicide (52 feet).
Drama.
Synopsis: [From Biograph promotional materials] [Part One] The first of a dramatic series of three pictures. Here the young husband comes home unexpectedly and finds his wife entertaining a strange man whom he orders from the house. / [Part Two] The young wife has stolen away with her lover, and the two are seen in a dance hall drinking. The husband enters, attacks his wife’s companion, and a fierce fight ensues, resulting in the husband’s ejection from the place. / [Part Three] The husband and wife are at home again. He implores her to give up her lover, but she laughs at him. He becomes desperate, and she draws a revolver to protect herself. The husband takes the revolver from her after a struggle and then shoots her twice. Having satisfied himself that she is dead, he puts a bullet through his own brain.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Adultery - Crime: Murder - Death: Murder, Suicide
Listing updated: 16 March 2011.
References: ClasIm-301 p. 30 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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