The Riot (1913)

The Riot

1913

Comedy

Synopsis

When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.

Credits

Director

Mack Sennett

Cast

Alice Davenport as Irish Neighborhood Leader's Wife

Billy Jacobs as One of the Neighborhood Kids

Charles Avery as Irishman

Charles Inslee as Irish Neighborhood Leader

Gordon Griffith as One of the Neighborhood Kids

Mabel Normand as Mabel - Cohen's Daughter

Nick Cogley as Jewish Bomb Thrower

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle as Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader