The Prussian Spy (1909) User Reviews

Investing Your Emotions

[Single-Black-Male · 12 February 2004]

By allowing us to get to know the characters on a deeper level, the 34 year old D.W. Griffith gave us entry into investing our emotions in the story, despite the fact that the props loomed menacingly in the background, disproportionate to any natural arrangement.

It might as well have been any other spy

[deickemeyer · 3 July 2014]

The Biograph people have given to the public a well-photographed picture in which love and intrigue form important parts. A girl rejects one suitor and drives him away. The favored one enters shortly after, but hearing someone coming she hides him in a closet. The rejected one returns, discovers the fact that some one has entered, suspects he is hidden in the closet. He places a target against the closet door and fires a revolver five times at the target. When the door is opened the lover is found dead. The last scene is strong where the girl waves aside the rejected suitor and holds the head of the dead lover on her lap. Just why it is given the name of "The Prussian Spy" doesn't appear from the picture. It might as well have been any other spy. - The Moving Picture World, March 6, 1909