The musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912, with Lillian Gish. Social problems had always interested Griffiths, and he turned his attention to the East Side slums in this little masterpiece, an ancestor of the gangster films of later decades.

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The musketeers of Pig Alley, 1912, with Lillian Gish. Social problems had always interested Griffiths, and he turned his attention to the East Side slums in this little masterpiece, an ancestor of the gangster films of later decades.

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Keywords: 1912, alley, archival, archive, cinema, film, gish, historical, history, housing, issues, lillian, movies, musketeers, pig, poverty, silent, slums, social