The original home invasion thriller — made by a woman in 1913, and she invented the split screen.
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
Direction
Lois Weber co-invented the split-screen phone call here.
Editing
Rapid cross-cutting that Hitchcock later stole from.
Acting
Weber's silent screaming still feels viscerally modern.
Director
Lois Weber
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