The Riot

The Riot

14 mins | Comedy | Aug. 7, 1913

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.

The Riot

14 mins | Comedy | Aug. 7, 1913

The Riot
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.
Producers Keystone Film Company
Original title The Riot
Directors Mack Sennett
Writers

Cast

Roscoe Arbuckle

as Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader

Mabel Normand

as Mabel - Cohen's Daughter

Charles Inslee

as Irish Neighborhood Leader

Alice Davenport

as Irish Neighborhood Leader's Wife

Charles Avery

as Irishman

Billy Jacobs

as One of the Neighborhood Kids

Gordon Griffith

as One of the Neighborhood Kids

Nick Cogley

as Jewish Bomb Thrower

Virginia Kirtley

as Blonde Girl at Garment Factory

William Hauber

as Rioter / Cop

Edgar Kennedy

as Cop

Hank Mann

as Man in Pool Hall

Al St. John

as Man in Pool Hall