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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "forbidden love" (29)

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Runaway Match/Marriage by Motor

Alf Collins (director)
Pablo Salazar (music)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, released in Nov 1903
Minutes: 5

Papa's attempt to bring back his eloping daughter is foiled by car troubles, in what is credited as the first (extremely brief) film car chase. But everyone's happy in the end. In between we get this close shot of hands and not much else. It seems odd to say a 5-minute film was too long, but watching the clock was more entertaining than watching the film. Thankfully, the added music is gorgeous.

Featured elements:

: automobile; chase; extended incident; forbidden love; romance

Attempted Suicide (Le Pendu)

Louis J. Gasnier (director/writer)
Max Linder (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, released in Dec 1906
Minutes: 6

A spurned lover hangs himself. Fortunately his still-flailing body is discovered, but rescuing him is not easy, as cutting him down is an official matter. This is not Max, the dapper and loveable upper-class twit.

Featured elements:

: comedy; comedy of manners; dark comedy; forbidden love; rescue; social commentary; suicide

The Voice Of The Violin

D.W. Griffith (director/writer)
G.W. Bitzer (cinematographer)
Arthur Johnson (lead)
Marion Leonard (lead)
David Miles (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1909
Minutes: 13

Hooded men in sheets plot to murder people but, surprisingly, in this Griffith film they'e not the heroes - probably because they annoyingly keep repeating "No high, No low, All equal!", which turns out to be an accurate description of this lengthy monotonous mess that once again shows that Griffith was burdened with too much film stock.

Featured elements:

: bombers; bookends; comedy; crime; fighting; forbidden love; zero to hero

The Unexpected Guest

Lubin (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Aug 1909
Minutes: 10

Though we see the unexpected guest two years after its conception was hinted at, making it at least 15 months old, it appears to be still an infant!

Featured elements:

: forbidden love; goofs; melodrama; treachery

Romeo Turns Bandit (Roméo Se Fait Bandit)

Max Linder (lead)
Romeo Bosetti (director)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Nov 1909
Minutes: 6

Romeo hires bandits to kidnap Juliet and capture her father. Move on folks, nothing to see here.

Featured elements:

: forbidden love; romance

The Delights of the Shoot

André Deed (lead)
Valentina Frascaroli (lead)

Language: Silent, released in Jan 1910
Minutes: 6

Not clear what's going on, but it appears that Cretinetti goes on a hunting trip with his lover and her husband. Then the two lovers conspire several ways to dump on hubby, so they can do the hanky panky. Fast-moving slapstick, but no laughs.

Featured elements:

: comedy; extended incident; forbidden love; slapstick; treachery

Troublesome Secretaries

Ralph Ince (director/lead)
John Bunny (lead)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Alec B. Francis (lead)
Vitagraph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Apr 1911
Minutes: 9

The second earliest surviving Mabel Normand film, and the earliest that she has a substantial role in.

Featured elements:

: comedy; farce; forbidden love; romance

Max And The Maid (La malle au mariage)

Max Linder (director/lead/writer)
Suzy Depsy (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1912
Minutes: 9

To wed a maid, Max must get consent from her lustful jealous guardian.

Featured elements:

: comedy; farce; forbidden love; gender-bender; identity mix-up; romance

Helen's Marriage

Mack Sennett (director/lead/producer)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Edward Dillon (lead)
Fred Mace (lead)
Dell Henderson (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in May 1912
Minutes: 7

No laughs, just young Mabel - for completists only.

Featured elements:

: comedy; forbidden love

Love Unconquerable (Amour tenace)

Max Linder (director/lead/writer)
Stacia Napierkowska (lead)
Georges Gorby (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in Aug 1912
Minutes: 10

Max is spurned by the father of his love, but still he persists. Note that Max briefly revisits his 1907 debut film, "The Unskillful Skater".

Featured elements:

: comedy; forbidden love; romance; slapstick; sports

An Interrupted Elopement

Mack Sennett (director/lead/producer)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Edward Dillon (lead)
Ford Sterling (lead)
Elmer Booth (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Aug 1912
Minutes: 8

Maybe “Helen's Marriage” was a smash hit, because just three months later Mabel and Edward Dillon were at it again. Though this one is helped a bit by Ford Sterling hamming it up as usual, it's still mainly for collectors.

Featured elements:

: comedy; forbidden love

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

Quo Vadis? [1913]

Enrico Guazzoni (director/writer)
Eugenio Bava (cinematographer)
Alessandro Bona (cinematographer)
Henryk Sienkiewicz (author)
Gustavo Serena (lead)
Amleto Novelli (lead)
Società Italiana Cines (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, Russian subtitles, released in Mar 1913
Minutes: 103

Maybe Rome wasn't built in a day, but it only took one night to burn it down (with the help of a few good men with torches), according to this elaborate tale of palace intrigue, divine intervention, and jungle fever in Nero's Rome.

Featured elements:

: corruption; death scene; execution; falsely accused; female bonding; forbidden love; heroic defender; historical drama; male bonding; manipulator; melodrama; patriarchy; persecution; prison; redemption; religion; rescue; revenge; Roman empire; romance; servitude; strongman; suicide; torture; treachery; unrequited love

The Student Of Prague

Paul Wegener (director/lead)
Guido Seeber (cinematographer)
Hanns Heinz Ewers (writer)
John Gottowt (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Aug 1913
Minutes: 41

Broke-ass jock goes schizo for a sleazo two-timing upper-class dame, gets stalked by a bitch who's a wall-creeping snitch so he ends up in a ditch - yeah, don't it suck to be a jock.

Featured elements:

: alienation; death scene; forbidden love; infidelity; manipulator; melodrama; patriarchy; rescue; treachery

Antony and Cleopatra (Marcantonio e Cleopatra)

Enrico Guazzoni (director)
Alessandro Bona (cinematographer)
William Shakespeare (author)
Amleto Novelli (lead)
Società Italiana Cines (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Sep 1913
Minutes: 74

Initially lacks the striking imagery of other epics of this period, so doesn't seem to be worth the effort required to view this badly damaged print. But patience is somewhat rewarded when the glitz kicks in later on.

Featured elements:

: animal act; chase; death scene; forbidden love; heroic defender; historical drama; melodrama; Roman empire; suicide

The Speed Kings

Wilfred Lucas (director)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Ford Sterling (lead)
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (lead)
Mack Sennett (producer)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Oct 1913
Minutes: 9

The main attraction: Sterling vs Arbuckle fight

Featured elements:

: automobile; chase; comedy; fighting; forbidden love; slapstick; sports

Won in a Closet/Won in a Cupboard

Mabel Normand (director/lead)
Charles Inslee (lead)
Alice Davenport (lead)
Charles Avery (lead)
Hank Mann (lead)
Al St. John (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1914
Minutes: 14

Starts slow, but builds: from the comic pairing of Mabel the farm beauty and her geeky Alfred E. Newman-clone “ideal” in the first third, to a symphony of quirky Keystone chaos in the final third. Second half is mostly a rework of The Bangville Police (1913).

Featured elements:

: abuse; automobile; comedy; crazy cops; distress call; farce; forbidden love; identity mix-up; rescue; slapstick; tramp; unrequited love

Those Country Kids

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead)
Mabel Normand (lead)
Al St. John (lead)
Alice Davenport (lead)
Frank Hayes (lead)
Keystone (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Aug 1914
Minutes: 12

Like an old country mule, this just plods along (obscured by poor print), until Al St. John enters. But he soon exits and story degenerates to a generic chase, with no laughs. Mere months later, this is remade as Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life. And five years later, in the Comique era, the fetch-the-fallen-from-the-well gag gets developed into grand absurdity in Love.

Featured elements:

: chase; comedy; crazy cops; family; fighting; forbidden love; heroic defender; slapstick

Cajus Julius Caesar

Enrico Guazzoni (director)
Raffaele Giovagnoli (writer)
William Shakespeare (author)
Amleto Novelli (lead)
Bruto Castellani (lead)
Irene Mattalia (lead)
Società Italiana Cines (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Nov 1914
Minutes: 112

Cast of thousands waddling around in sandals and togas in this spectacularly boring two-hour history lecture.

Featured elements:

: armed conflict; beheading; death scene; forbidden love; historical drama; melodrama; Roman empire; treachery; uprising

Max's Elopement (Max au couvent)

Max Linder (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, released in Nov 1914
Minutes: 26

Max rescues lover from a convent via an arranged kidnapping: an extended rework of "Romeo Turns Bandit". All romance, no comedy. Includes unusual insertion of a triptych screen.

Featured elements:

: chase; forbidden love; rescue; romance

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