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Voidsville Follies

Works from Émile Keppens (2)

Le mystère des roches de Kador

Léonce Perret (director/lead/writer)
Georges Specht (cinematographer)
Suzanne Grandais (lead)
Émile Keppens (lead)
Jean Aymé (lead)
Louis Leubas (lead)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, French titles, English subtitles, released in Dec 1912
Minutes: 44

A routine virgin-in-the-clutches-of-villain melodrama made interesting by a metatheatric innovation - and the surpise appearance of Satanas himself as police chief!

Featured elements:

: crime; detective; family; gold digger; melodrama; metakill science; metatheatre; psycho; servitude; treachery

Les Vampires (Serial)

Louis Feuillade (director/writer)
Manichoux (cinematographer)
Édouard Mathé (lead)
Émile Keppens (lead)
Fernand Herrmann (lead)
Frédéric Moriss (lead)
Germaine Rouer (lead)
Jean Aymé (lead)
Louise Lagrange (lead)
Louis Leubas (lead)
Marcel Lévesque (lead)
Musidora (lead)
Paula Maxa (lead)
Stacia Napierkowska (lead)
Gaumont (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Nov 1915

Les Vampires is Paris' most infamous criminal gang - a gang led by a succession of Wile E. Coyotes who are forever concocting over-ingenious fails. As a result, it's a gang that seems to make no money, that just hangs out gangster partying. Therefore, it's up to de facto leader Irma Vep to get the job done right - which earns her the title of one of Cinema's Most Badass.