The Fatal Hour
MovieTitle | The Fatal Hour |
User score | 2.5 |
Release date | Aug 18, 1908 |
Genre | Crime, Thriller, Adventure |
Director | D.W. Griffith |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | American Mutoscope & Biograph |
Run time | 14 min. |
This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.