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Voidsville Follies

Works by Blanche Sweet (2)

The Lonedale Operator

D.W. Griffith (director)
G.W. Bitzer (cinematographer)
Mack Sennett (writer)
Blanche Sweet (lead)
Francis J. Grandon (lead)
Edward Dillon (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1911
Minutes: 17

Variation on the invasion-call-rescue formula of Griffith`s earlier "The Lonely Villa". Most importantly, the melodramatic fat is trimmed by replacing Mother Purity and Her Three Snow White Virgins with one smart tough cookie - a working girl who even stays cool enough to take a quick mid-crisis nap - thus avoiding the worst of the dated hokey trappings that plague too many Griffith films.

Featured elements:

: action; crime; distress call; invasion-call-rescue; rescue; romance; suspense; train; tramp

Judith Of Bethulia

D.W. Griffith (director/writer)
G.W. Bitzer (cinematographer)
Grace Pierce (writer)
Frank E. Woods (writer)
Blanche Sweet (lead)
Henry B. Walthall (lead)
Mae Marsh (lead)
Robert Harron (lead)
Lillian Gish (lead)
Dorothy Gish (lead)
Kate Bruce (lead)
Harry Carey (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1914
Minutes: 72

Thanks to a surplus of static scenes posing as high art enactments of a story told via intertitles instead of action, this one's a top-shelf go-to for acute insomnia. But to preserve sanity, don't try to make sense of the muddled story.

Featured elements:

: armed conflict; beheading; female avenger; femme fatale; melodrama; religion; servitude; treachery

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