Dream Street
Cast & Crew
D. W. Griffith
Carol Dempster
Ralph Graves
Charles Emmett Mack
Edward Peil
W. J. Ferguson
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Gypsy Fair, a music hall dancer, is admired by Spike McFadden, a swaggering bully with a golden voice, and his brother, Billy, a timid and frail composer and poet. She is also coveted by Swan Way, a Chinaman who seeks vengeance when Gypsy not only rejects him but reveals his secret gambling den. One of Swan Way's followers attempts to rob Billy, and when the boy kills him, Spike assumes guilt for the crime and Swan Way makes it appear that Gypsy has betrayed him to the police. At the inquest, Billy saves Spike by a last-minute confession and is acquitted on a verdict of self-defense. Billy achieves fame as a composer, while Spike and Gypsy sign a contract with an important theatrical production.
Director
D. W. Griffith
Cast
Carol Dempster
Ralph Graves
Charles Emmett Mack
Edward Peil
W. J. Ferguson
Porter Strong
George Neville
Charles Slattery
[frederick] Tyrone Power
Morgan Wallace
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
In an early experiment with sound, director D.W. Griffith filmed a brief introductory prologue where he was seen (and heard) speaking directly to the audience about the film they were about to see. This introduction still exists, but is missing from most versions of the film.
Notes
Sources conflict on the film's length in feet or reels. Some sources list it at 11,000 feet, while others list it as 9 or 10 reels at its premiere. Following the New York opening, D. W. Griffith offered a showing at Town Hall with an experimental sound-on-disc process developed by Orlando Kellum for several sequences.
