A New Trick (1909)
July 19, 1909Release Date
Plot.
To help a woman whose purse has been snatched, two college boys stage a murder scene and trap the purse snatcher.
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Release DateJuly 19, 1909
StatusReleased
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A New Trick is a silent American crime comedy film directed and written by D. W. Griffith, released in 1909. A production of Biograph Company, the short film was distributed as a split reel with The Lonely Villa. Shot in Edgewater, New Jersey, the film starred Marion Leonard, Mack Sennett, Herbert Prior, and Arthur V. Johnson.
A 1909 article in The Monroe News-Star called A New Trick "one of the cleverest bits of comedy Biograph has yet turned out", describing it as "short and snappy".