The Waif and the Wizard
MovieTitle | The Waif and the Wizard |
User score | 6.5 |
Release date | Sep 1, 1901 |
Genre | Drama, Fantasy |
Director | Walter R. Booth |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Robert W. Paul |
Run time | 2 min. |
The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines of Paul's earlier film Come Along Do!. The young man plays a magician who, after completing his act, agrees to go home with the young boy from the audience who helped him perform his tricks. At the boy's home he finds a sick sister and a worried mother being threatened with eviction by her landlord.