Poor abused Nora runs into privileged bored Beatrice, while wandering onto the rich girl's family estate. Both girls notice the uncanny resemblance between each other, so they decide to switch places.

Imagine a negative space where two silhouettes fit together like jigsaw pieces carved from the same photographic plate: that is the eerie genesis of Rich Girl, Poor Girl. Directed with proto-noir fatalism by J.G. Hawks and scripted by Andrew Percival Younger, this 1917 one-reeler distills class rage into a fairy-tale...

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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Harry B. Harris

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" Imagine a negative space where two silhouettes fit together like jigsaw pieces carved from the same photographic plate: that is the eerie genesis of Rich Girl, Poor Girl. Directed with proto-noir fatalism by J.G. Hawks and scripted by Andrew Percival Younger, this 1917 one-reeler distills class rage into a fairy-tale shot through with arsenic. The film’s 63-minute runtime feels paradoxically longer than some three-hour sagas, because every iris-in tightens like a garrote around the viewer’s co..."
J.G. Hawks, Andrew Percival Younger
United States

1920 · IMDb —


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