(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- 国家/地区: 法国
- 类型: 剧情, 短片
- 上映日期: 1909-08-18
- 导演: N/A
- 编剧: N/A
- 语言: None | French
- 演员: N/A
- 片长: 分钟
- 奖项: N/A
- 又名: The Strikers , The Strikers (法国)
- 剧情简介: The opening scene shows one of the many exceedingly interesting taverns of France, located in the smaller towns. The foreman of the town stone quarries is shown visiting with his sweetheart, the inn keeper's daughter. It is one of the beautiful pictures of rustic lovers which always touch the heart of the public. From the tavern he goes to the quarry where we see him in charge of his force of men, all of whom seem both busy and contented with the exception of one man who, rather than attend to his duty, moves about among the workmen, sowing thoughts of discontent, telling them that in a very short time the walking delegate of the labor organization will arrive to lead them in a fight for greater concessions from the owner of the quarries. Next, we see the agitator at the tavern, drinking and making love to the foreman's sweetheart. Being a clever man, gifted with great ability to express himself and strong in his influences over men, he has little trouble to gain the girl's interest. With the help of the man who had announced his coming, the agitator finally incites the men to strike. In spite of the pleas of the foreman they leave their work to parade the streets in a body, adding to their number such bystanders as they can. They then go to the home of their employer and there make their demands, which are refused. The young foreman heroically attempts to turn them from their purpose, but his words are ever drowned by the dramatic statements of the mob leader. The love story moves with the action of the mob. The tavern keeper's daughter, admiring the powerful leader, follows him with the crowd and is favored often by words and caresses from him. She now utterly ignores her former lover, who is naturally despondent. The employer is not forced to surrender by the mere closing of his quarries, and the men are soon in need of money for their families. They become more fierce under the compelling tongue of the agitator. They again make their demands and are refused. Whipped into a frenzy by the unscrupulous leader, they arm themselves and move upon the grounds of their former employer, bent upon destruction and crime. Through all, the young foreman follows and attempts to advise, but is forced aside unnoticed. As well, his former sweetheart attends always upon the mob leader, making life even harder for the man whom she had once called her lover. The crisis of the drama is strongly enacted within the quarry grounds. The mob, misled by the emotional speeches, and strung to the highest pitch of anger by their fancied grievances, has only begun its course of destruction under the orders of its lender, who with his new found sweetheart, is gloating over the success of his work, when our hero, driven desperate at last by his own failure and the sight of his sweetheart in the embrace of another, rushes through the crowd, separates the rogue from the girl, then challenges the bombastic soldier of fortune in combat. The leader at first tries to frighten him, but realizing the fact that the youth is in deadly earnest, weakens and, being at heart a coward, refuses the encounter. The mob, disgusted by his weakness, slinks away, while the girl who had loved him only for his apparent strength, begs her old-time sweetheart to forgive her.
- IMDB:tt4295570
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