# Across the Way > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Across_the_Way > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Across_the_Way.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Way > Source revision: 1339488193 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Good article}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Across the Way | image = File:Across the Way 1915.jpg | caption = Film still from ''Reel Life'' showing [Boyd Marshall](/source/Boyd_Marshall) (left) and Rene Farrington (right) | director = | producer = Princess ([Thanhouser Company](/source/Thanhouser_Company)) | writer = | starring = | music = | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = | released = {{film date|1915|2|12}} | runtime = 1 reel | country = United States | language = Silent
English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Across the Way''''' is a 1915 American [silent](/source/silent_film) [short](/source/short_film) film produced by the [Thanhouser Company](/source/Thanhouser_Company) under the Princess brand. The comedy-drama involves a man named Sparks playing a trick on his friend to make him question his sanity. The trick involves the friend's love interest being attacked by an assailant which works, but then a burglar attacks her a few days later. The friend saves his love interest from the burglar and later marries him instead of Sparks. The Princess comedy-dramas were not well-received and it was not long after the film's release that [Edwin Thanhouser](/source/Edwin_Thanhouser) took a personal interest in the productions at the New Rochelle studio. Soon thereafter, the Princess brand was discontinued and replaced by the Falstaff brand. The film is presumed to be [lost](/source/Lost_film). == Plot == The published synopsis of the film was listed in ''Reel Life'' states: "Sparks learns, upon visiting his fiancee, Bianca, an art student, that his friend, Tom Brown, a writer, is living across the court. He soon sees that Bianca and Brown are mutually attracted and plans to play a joke upon his friend, which shall make the latter doubt his own sanity. He persuades Bianca to enact a scene with him before the drawn window curtain in which she is attacked by a man with a pistol and drawing a dagger from her bosom, defends herself, killing her assailant. Brown, seeing all this in silhouette on the shade, rushes to Bianca's assistance. He finds her reading peacefully, and is told that the incident must have been an hallucination of his own brain. A few evenings after this Bianca actually is attacked by a burglar. Brown, who now is "on" to the fact that in the former instance his friend Sparks had designs upon him, at first thinks this also is another of Sparks' "jokes". However, he goes stealthily to investigate and is just in time to save the girl, who breaks her engagement to Sparks and marries Brown."{{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/reellife05unse | title=Reel Life (Sep 1914-Mar 1915) (Sep 1914-Mar 1915) | publisher=[Mutual Film Corp.](/source/Mutual_Film_Corp.) | date=1915 | access-date=12 January 2015 | pages=710}} == Cast == *[Boyd Marshall](/source/Boyd_Marshall) as Tom Brown *John Reinhard as Sparks *Rene Farrington as Bianca *Kenneth Clarendon ([Hal Clarendon](/source/Hal_Clarendon)) as the Caretaker *Mr. Yorke (Jay C. Yorke) as the Burglar == Production == The Princess production department of the [Thanhouser Company](/source/Thanhouser_Company) started in 1913. It would have a film released on every Friday. Early Princess productions were mostly comedies that performed well, but the company's dramas were often unfavorable. The early Princess productions were marked by their poor scenarios that were illogically written or consisted of uninteresting material.{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c6s24.htm | title=Volume 1 - Narrative History - Chapter 6: 1913 Princess | encyclopedia=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History | date=1995 | access-date=12 January 2015 | author=Q. David Bowers | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112201739/http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c6s24.htm | archive-date=12 January 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} Princess produced films out of a studio in [New Rochelle](/source/New_Rochelle) from 1913 until 1915, when the production brand was changed and renamed Falstaff.{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c8s17.htm | title=Volume 1: Narrative History - Chapter 8: 1915 Falstaff Films | encyclopedia=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History | date=1995 | access-date=12 January 2015 | author=Q. David Bowers | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219034528/http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c8s17.htm | archive-date=19 December 2014 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} The production and release of ''Across the Way'' occurred before [Edwin Thanhouser](/source/Edwin_Thanhouser) returned and took personal interest in improving the quality of the productions at the New Rochelle studio.{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c8s14.htm | title=Volume 1: Narrative History - Chapter 8: 1915 Corporate Changes | encyclopedia=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History | date=1995 | access-date=12 January 2015 | author=Q. David Bowers. | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112201421/http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c8s14.htm | archive-date=12 January 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} The new brand, Falstaff, would soon replace the Princess productions.{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Navigation_Files/c8.htm | title=Volume 1: Narrative History - Chapter 8 1915: Edwin Thanhouser Returns, New Ventures | encyclopedia=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History | date=1995 | access-date=13 January 2015 | author=Q. David Bower | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150120075656/http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Navigation_Files/c8.htm | archive-date=20 January 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} == Release and reception == The film was released on February 12, 1915. It was later released in [The United Kingdom](/source/United_Kingdom) on July 5, 1915.{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Appendix_Files/conailo8i.htm | title=Thanhouser Films - British Releases Thanhouser-Princess-Falstaff | encyclopedia=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History | date=1995 | access-date=12 January 2015 | author=Q. David Bowers | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112201231/http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Appendix_Files/conailo8i.htm | archive-date=12 January 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} The film was released nationwide with advertisements appearing in [Chicago, Illinois](/source/Chicago%2C_Illinois){{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1561455/suburbanite_economist/ | title=E. A. R. Theater | publisher=Suburbanite Economist (Chicago, Illinois) | date=19 Feb 1915 | access-date=12 January 2015 | pages=3|via = [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)}} {{Open access}} [Kansas](/source/Kansas),{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1561608/the_wellington_daily_news/ | title=Majestic | publisher=[The Wellington Daily News](/source/The_Wellington_Daily_News) (Wellington, Kansas) | date=18 Mar 1915 | access-date=12 January 2015 | pages=1|via = [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)}} {{Open access}} and [Ohio](/source/Ohio).{{cite web | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1561449/lancaster_eaglegazette/ | title=(Majestic Advertisement) | publisher=[Lancaster Eagle-Gazette](/source/Lancaster_Eagle-Gazette) (Lancaster, Ohio) | date=18 Mar 1915 | access-date=12 January 2015 | pages=6|via = [Newspapers.com](/source/Newspapers.com)}} {{Open access}} A review in ''[The Moving Picture World](/source/The_Moving_Picture_World)'' said the comedy-drama as being pleasing to watch and full of action.{{cite web | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/cdrom.htm | title=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History - Across the Way | publisher=Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc | date=1995 | access-date=12 January 2015 | author=Q. David Bowers | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024114738/http://www.thanhouser.org/cdrom.htm | archive-date=24 October 2014 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} However, the quality of the Princess films towards the end of its productions were not pleasing the audiences. The last Princess brand film, ''Just Kids'' would be released on April 9.{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c8s16.htm | title=Volume 1: Narrative History - Chapter 8: 1915 Films From the Backlog | encyclopedia=Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History | date=1995 | access-date=12 January 2015 | author=Q. David Bowers | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112200935/http://www.thanhouser.org/tcocd/Narrative_files/c8s16.htm | archive-date=12 January 2015 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }} The film is presumed to be [lost](/source/Lost_film). ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Across the Way}} Category:1915 films Category:1915 American films Category:1915 comedy-drama films Category:1915 lost films Category:1915 short films Category:1915 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent comedy-drama short films Category:English-language comedy-drama short films Category:Lost American silent comedy-drama films Category:Lost American silent comedy short films Category:Lost American silent drama short films Category:Thanhouser Company films --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Across the Way](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Way) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Way?action=history)). 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