Robbery (1897 film)

Robbery AKA A Wayfarer Compelled to Disrobe Partially is an 1897 British short blackandwhite silent comedy film directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring a wayfairer who is forced to handover his valuables and some of his clothes to an armed robber. The film, although only intended as a comedy, according to Michael Brooks of BFI Screenonline, in fact reveals how the stripping of ones Victorian uniform also meant the stripping of ones integrity, and, turns the viewer into an accomplice, since it forces us to watch the mans humiliation headon, ultimately aligning ourselves not with the victim but with the thief. It is included on the BFI DVD R.W. Paul The Collected Films 18951908.

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