Edward Dillon leads a bunch of tourists on a tour of Chinatown's dread sights, including an opium den and a sausage shop where they toss live dogs, cats, and the occasional tourist into the hopper to be ground up in this very early film directed by D.W. Griffith.
It's all a film-flam to mulct the unwary, including a variation of the 'automatic sausage machine.' As Griffith's sixth movie, you might think you'll see some sign of genius, but it was only a couple of weeks since his first movie as director had come out, and it is indistinguishable from anything directed from his predecessors. The actors - including Griffith - are dressed up as stage rubes, the acting is of the hand waving variety, and the camera is placed in the center of the front row. It's a frantic, frenetic comedy. It would be months before he began to institute reforms,
It's all a film-flam to mulct the unwary, including a variation of the 'automatic sausage machine.' As Griffith's sixth movie, you might think you'll see some sign of genius, but it was only a couple of weeks since his first movie as director had come out, and it is indistinguishable from anything directed from his predecessors. The actors - including Griffith - are dressed up as stage rubes, the acting is of the hand waving variety, and the camera is placed in the center of the front row. It's a frantic, frenetic comedy. It would be months before he began to institute reforms,
