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Voidsville Follies

Works from Henry B. Walthall (2)

Wilful Peggy

D.W. Griffith (director)
G.W. Bitzer (cinematographer)
Frank E. Woods (writer)
Mary Pickford (lead)
Henry B. Walthall (lead)
Claire McDowell (lead)
Biograph (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Aug 1910
Minutes: 13

Prissy voyeur lord of the manor gets the hots watching peasant gal kicking ass and dressing up as a man to flirt with the ladies. Could've been kinky, but instead it's just a freeze-dried Taming of the Shrew.

Featured elements:

: comedy of manners; cross-dressing; gender-bender; patriarchy; servitude

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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