title: The Curtain Pole
text: # The Curtain Pole
  
  The Curtain Pole is a 1909 American comedy film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film still exists. The film was made by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Mack Sennett as Monsieur Dupont
  * Harry Solter as Mr. Edwards
  * Florence Lawrence as Mrs. Edwards
  