La fille du faux-monnayeur

La fille du faux-monnayeur (1907)

Short • 0h 10m
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"La fille du faux monnayeur," or "The Counterfeiters' Daughter," is an amusing Gaumont short that plays out like a 1907 version of an episode of the American TV series "Good Girls." It being about a seemingly ordinary family that's in the business of making fake money and constantly evading the law. The daughter is both complicit in this criminality, including hiding the evidence before a police search, and generous (well, sort of) by giving a bit of the fake money to beggars. A well-paced and unusual glorification of illegal activity for a 1907 film.Alison McMahan lists this one in her filmography for Alice Guy, but most other sources claim Louis Feuillade as director--a rather frequent confusion given the lack of credits back then. Just based on the criminal subject matter, I would think it more likely it was made by Feuillade, although its family-oriented placement in the domestic sphere is suggestive of Guy's oeuvre, and I suppose it wouldn't be unheard of for two filmmakers working at the same studio to collaborate.

Louis Feuillade
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6.5

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