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Voidsville Follies

Works by Mae Marsh (3)

A Beast At Bay

D.W. Griffith (director)
G.W. Bitzer (cinematographer)
George Hennessy (writer)
Mary Pickford (lead)
Edwin August (lead)
Alfred Paget (lead)
Mae Marsh (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1912
Minutes: 14

Routine race-to-the rescue, made interesting only by the relatively wild performance of the 'beast'.

Featured elements:

: action; automobile; chase; crime; fighting; forsaken; rescue; zero to hero

The Telephone Girl And The Lady

D.W. Griffith (director)
G.W. Bitzer (cinematographer)
Anita Loos (writer)
Edward Acker (author)
Mae Marsh (lead)
Claire McDowell (lead)
Alfred Paget (lead)
Charles Hill Mailes (lead)
Harry Carey (lead)
Lionel Barrymore (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1913
Minutes: 11

Yet another riff on the invasion-call-rescue theme, but made more interesting because the distress call goes not to a male Master Of The Home, but to the girl in the telephone office who, like The Lonedale Operator, thinks quick to save the day (without even fainting!). Plus 11 more points of interest...

Featured elements:

: action; crime; distress call; fighting; forbidden love; home invasion; invasion-call-rescue; patriarchy; rescue; romance; suspense

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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