The Curse of Greed (Le Roman d'un mousse)
After a film company reaps a windfall by ruthlessly exploiting child labor and demonizing the lower classes and the colonized in order to lay siege to the hearts of its prey, it reneges on the agreed happy ending and snatches another child to exploit, and again threatens its prey with the bottomless evil of unwashed masses - who, this time, are commanded by a moneylender (who audiences likely would assume to be a Jew - understood to be the root of all evil in post-Dreyfus France). As before, the scenery is nice in this cinematic postcard. But still it suffers from The Curse of Greed: a boring, shallow existence.