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A Catastrophe in Hester Street

A Catastrophe in Hester Street (1904)

0h 2m | PG-13

⭐ 6 / 10

Two workers leave boxes of explosives with a push cart street vendor while they visit a bar. They return drunk and accidentally drop a box of nitro powder, causing an explosion that wrecks the block and blows off the vendor’s arm. A policeman shows up to the carnage and tries to replace the vendor’s arm with a severed leg.

Director: N/A

Studio: American Mutoscope & Biograph

Genre: Comedy, Action, Horror

Video: 720p

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