The film ends as the police arrive and take the handsome burglar into custody....[3][b]The screenplay for this short is credited to D. W. Griffith, who also directed the picture at Biograph's main studio, which in 1909 was located inside a large renovated brownstone mansion in New York City, in Manhattan, at 11 East 14th Street.

[6] In addition to summarizing this release's plot, the previously noted 1985 reference Early Motion Pictures: The Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress provides a basic description of Bitzer's camerawork in shooting the production:...The film ends as the police arrive and take the handsome burglar into custody.

[3]Bitzer collaborated with Griffith for many years, and his extensive experience behind the camera made him an expert at gauging not only the "screen presence" or photogenic qualities of actors but also, respectively, their strongest attributes on film.

"[12] That news item also informs filmgoers that for the price of ten cents they can purchase a poster from Biograph on which the names and respective portraits of 26 of the company's principal actors were featured.

[12] The film and its split-reel companion Schneider's Anti-Noise Crusade circulated for many months to theaters throughout the country and were widely promoted in newspapers and trade publications.

Shortly before the release of A Rude Hostess on April 8, 1909, an anonymous reviewer for The Moving Picture World in New York saw a preview of it and succinctly reported, "The subject is most cleverly acted and sumptuously staged.

"[13] Most published comments about A Rude Hostess and other printed references to the short in 1909 and during the first half of 1910 are not independent, non-biased assessments of the Biograph production; they are instead from newspaper advertisers or theater owners who simply had commercial interests in attracting audiences.

The same month, for example, that The Brunswick Daily News was commenting about the film in Georgia, more than 4,500 miles away, in the United States territory of Hawaii, theaters were already screening the short as well.

"[15] Elaborating on those points in promoting the short as a "ladies" comedy, the Honolulu newspaper in the same issue states:The patrons of the Art Theater will find in the picture serial entitled, "The [sic] Rude Hostess," chosen for the feature of today's change of program, an exceedingly clever story and, incidentally, an illustration of how a smart and pretty woman can outwit a rogue of the sterner sex.

The film is manufactured by the American Biograph Company, and if you pay proper attention, you will find that it will keep your mind so thoroughly engrossed that you will think that you are lost in the perusal of some good work of fiction.

[3][d] Submitted by Biograph to the United States government in 1909, shortly before the film's release, the roll is part of the original documentation required by federal authorities for motion picture companies to obtain copyright protection for their productions.