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Released
1909 · FILM

A Corner in Wheat

Directed by
Color
Black & White
Runtime
14 min
Drama

Synopsis

A wealthy tycoon, acting on impulse, attempts to monopolize the global wheat market. His actions cause the price of bread to double, pushing grain producers into reliance on charity and pushing others deeper into poverty. The film highlights the contrast between the lives of those who cultivate the wheat and the life of the man who profits from its trade.

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Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by James SmithShot by G W Bitzer

Also known as

  • Der Weizenkönigde
  • Le Spéculateur en grainsfr
  • L'accaparramento del frumentoit

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