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Voidsville Follies

Works from Vitagraph (2)

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

The Man From Egypt

Larry Semon (director/writer)
C. Graham Baker (writer)
Hughie Mack (lead)
Jewell Hunt (lead)
John Flatow (lead)
Vitagraph (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Jul 1916
Minutes: 14

After unwittingly frightening away a thief disguised as a sheik, the bellhop named Rollmops then masquerades as the sheik-thief when he learns that the man was invited to meet and marry the heiress of a millionaire. But because the thief stole a ruby from a religious idol, Rollmops is being trailed by “The Man From Egypt”: a do-or-die bubblegum-chewing assassin.

Featured elements:

: chase; comedy; ethnic stereotype; falsely accused; flashback; gold digger; identity mix-up; patriarchy; religion; roughhouse; slapstick

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