One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1912 · 15 mins

Directed by

D.W. Griffith

Starring

Edwin August, Robert Harron, Frank Opperman, Blanche Sweet, Kate Toncray, Kate Bruce

Griffith weaves the stories of two couples married on the same day—one wealthy, one poor. As years pass, the unemployed poor husband tries to burglarize a house, only to be confronted at gunpoint by the mistress, who turns out to be the rich wife’s partner. While holding him, she discovers evidence that implicates her own husband in a bribery scheme.