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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "adventure" (7)

A Trip to the Moon

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Sep 1902
Minutes: 13

Astronomers make a trip to the Moon. [Star Film 399-411]

Featured elements:

: adventure; fantasy; sci-fi

L'Inferno

Francesco Bertolini (director)
Adolfo Padovan (director)
Giuseppe de Liguoro (director/lead)
Emilio Roncarolo (cinematographer)
Dante Alighieri (author)
Salvatore Papa (lead)
Milano (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1911
Minutes: 72

Dante journeys into the afterlife, where obsessive completists who wasted their lives watching every silent movie available, then posting faux-witticisms, now are condemned to spend all eternity watching "L'Inferno".

Featured elements:

: adventure; afterlife; beheading; fantasy; monsters; prison; religion

Cabiria

Giovanni Pastrone (director/writer)
Eugenio Bava (cinematographer)
Natale Chiusano (cinematographer)
Segundo de Chomón (cinematographer)
Giovanni Tomatis (cinematographer)
Gabriele D'Annunzio (writer)
Emilio Salgari (author)
Gustave Flaubert (author)
Titus Livius (author)
Umberto Mozzato (lead)
Bartolomeo Pagano (lead)
Itala (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, French subtitles, released in Apr 1914
Minutes: 124

With awe-inspiring visuals, a compelling story, and the screen debuts of Maciste and Moloch, this gets even better with multiple viewings.

Featured elements:

: action; adventure; armed conflict; chase; death scene; fighting; historical drama; melodrama; religion; rescue; Roman empire; servitude; strongman; suicide; torture

A Trip to Mars (Himmelskibet)

Holger-Madsen (director)
Ole Olsen (producer/writer)
Sophus Michaëlis (author/writer)
Nicolai Neiiendam (lead)
Gunnar Tolnæs (lead)
Zanny Petersen (lead)
Alf Blütecher (lead)
Svend Kornbeck (lead)

Language: Silent, Danish and English titles, Spanish subtitles, released in Feb 1918
Minutes: 81

Nine adventurous thrill-seeking young men in tight leather suits share a cramped spaceship for months. Right - love the kinky Warholish story idea, and its social commentary. Shame the commentary is never developed, and ruined by 19th-century grand stage-style cornball acting.

Featured elements:

: addiction; adventure; family; melodrama; motley crew; patriarchy; social commentary

The Spiders (Serial)

Fritz Lang (director/writer)
Karl Freund (cinematographer)
Carl de Vogt (lead)
Georg John (lead)
Lil Dagover (lead)
Ressel Orla (lead)
Erich Pommer (producer)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Oct 1919

While in hot pursuit of conspicuous leisure, a delusional elite spots a bottle trashed in the sea. For no apparent reason, he takes it home and struggles to get to the urgent message he has convinced himself is inside (not wanting to simply break the valuable trashy bottle). He claims the bottle contained an urgent message (although its pedantry seems quite incongruent with the circumstances under which it was purportedly written). The message tells of “unbelievable treasures” and a gold mine “which appears to be inexhaustible” (claims that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with the bottle's cyber-twin: scam spam). When he spins this tale to his fellow elites at Club Inbreeders, it gets picked up by an agent of a diabolical gullible mastermind, and leads to an intensely silly spectacle of competing blundering murderous international thieves - with one posing as White Savior - that modern viewers will be familiar with from their encounters with its political-twin: the new “Cold War”.

Featured elements:

: addiction; adventure; anti-colonialism; chase; Chinatown; corruption; cowboys; crime; criminal mastermind; ethnic stereotype; femme fatale; fighting; flashback; gambling; gangs; gentleman thief; heroic defender; home invasion; hypnosis; melodrama; message in a bottle; religion; rescue; revenge; servitude; torture; treachery; unrequited love; white savior; yellow peril

Maciste In Hell (Maciste all’inferno)

Guido Brignone (director)
Ubaldo Arata (cinematographer)
Massimo Terzano (cinematographer)
Segundo de Chomón (cinematographer)
Riccardo Artuffo (writer)
Stefano Pittaluga (writer)
Dante Alighieri (author)
Bartolomeo Pagano (lead)
Elena Sangro (lead)
Itala (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Oct 1925
Minutes: 53

A surprisingly imaginative visual feast, not so far from Fellini.

Featured elements:

: action; adventure; afterlife; comedy; fantasy; femme fatale; fighting; heroic defender; religion; rescue; sexuality; strongman; treachery; uprising

The Valiant Girl Nicknamed White Rose (女俠白玫瑰) [incomplete]

Cheung Wai-Man/Whitman Chant/張惠民 (director)
Wu Su-Xin/White Rose Woo/吳素馨 (director/lead)
Tong Kim-Ding/湯劍廷 (cinematographer)
C.C. Koo/谷劍塵 (writer)
Sun Ven-Chin/俊文沈 (lead/writer)
W.S. Ting/丁華氏 (lead)
Shi Jue-Fei/時覺非 (lead)

Language: Silent, Chinese and English titles, released in 1929, month unknown
Minutes: 27

When a girl learns that some of her family's property has been bogarted, she bids farewell to Phys Ed, paints a mustache over her powder and rouge, and promptly kills a dozen or so men, thus giving her the confidence to tell her Pops that she will avenge for him. But Pops mistakes her for his son - the one with makeup and a cute smile - so he has his doubts. But that cute smile wins him over and she leads a crew of men to success, but works up a bit of an oh-dear oh-dear, so Pops suggested the men give his cute son a bath. Getting interesting? Too bad the clip ends there. Fairbanks never looked this cute.

Featured elements:

: adventure; female avenger; fighting; gender-bender; identity mix-up

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