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UNITED STATES · 1909

In Little Italy

D.W. Griffith
jealousy love triangle violence Italian immigrant community crime and punishment
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Synopsis

Marie has two suitors. She accepts Victor and rejects Tony, who stabs Victor in a fit of jealousy. When he learns that Victor is still alive, he breaks into the room in Marie's house where Victor is convalescing and attacks him again. He is threatening to attack Marie when lawmen burst in and arrest him.

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