The Riot

Comedy

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Mack Sennett

Status Released

Release Date 1913-08-07

Storyline

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.