| The Suburbanite | |
| Director: | Wallace McCutcheon |
| Starring: | John Troiano |
| Cinematography: | A.E. Weed |
| Studio: | American Mutoscope & Biograph Company |
| Distributor: | American Mutoscope & Biograph Company |
| Runtime: | 9 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent |
The Suburbanite is a 1904 American short comedy silent film directed by Wallace McCutcheion and starring John Troiano. The film was produced and distributed by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive and in the Museum of Modern Art film archive.[1]
The film is about a family who move to the suburbs, hoping for a quiet life. Things start to go wrong, and the wife gets violent and starts throwing crockery, leading to her arrest.
Pamela Robertson Wojcik considers the film to be a landmark film for actors, noting that the "comic characters had assumed a more central position in the mise-en-scene", and as a result, the actor's skills were "increasingly called upon to create a rudimentary character".[2]