The Riot(1913)

movie - first aired/released 1913-08-07 - 14 min

Comedy

Directed by Mack Sennett

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.