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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "beheading" (9)

The Cook’s Revenge

Georges Méliès (director)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in 1900, month unknown
Minutes: 1

The lighter side of beheadings. [Star Film 243]

Featured elements:

: beheading; comedy; fantasy

Histoire d'un crime

Ferdinand Zecca (director/writer)
Jean Liézer (lead)
Pathé (production)

Language: Silent, released in May 1901
Minutes: 5

Sometimes dead men do tell tales...In jail for murder, a man tells the story of his road to ruin from drinking - via a thought balloon on the prison wall, an effective early flashback technique. Then he is led off to a gruesome end. A noir tale without noir visuals.

Featured elements:

: addiction; beheading; crime; execution; flashback; home invasion; melodrama; noir

The Melomaniac (Le Mélomane)

Georges Méliès (director/lead)
Star (production)

Language: Silent, released in Aug 1903
Minutes: 2

A music lesson, using telegraph wires - and the teacher's head. Must be a French thing... [Star Film 479-480]

Featured elements:

: beheading; fantasy; music

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

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

Cajus Julius Caesar

Enrico Guazzoni (director)
Raffaele Giovagnoli (writer)
William Shakespeare (author)
Amleto Novelli (lead)
Bruto Castellani (lead)
Irene Mattalia (lead)
Società Italiana Cines (production)

Language: Silent, Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Nov 1914
Minutes: 112

Cast of thousands waddling around in sandals and togas in this spectacularly boring two-hour history lecture.

Featured elements:

: armed conflict; beheading; death scene; forbidden love; historical drama; melodrama; Roman empire; treachery; uprising

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.

Featured elements:

: action; automobile; backstage; beheading; chase; comedy; comic sidekick; crime; criminal mastermind; cross-dressing; dance; dance-Apache; death scene; detective; femme fatale; gangs; gender-bender; heist; kiddie act; manipulator; metatheatre; mind control; newsroom; servitude; sidekick; train; windbag assassin

Salomé [1923]

Charles Bryant (director)
Alla Nazimova (director/lead/writer)
Natacha Rambova (director-art/writer)
Charles Van Enger (cinematographer)
Oscar Wilde (author)
Aubrey Beardsley (author-art)
Mitchell Lewis (lead)
Rose Dione (lead)
Nigel De Brulier (lead)
Earl Schenck (lead)
Arthur Jasmine (lead)
Frederick Peters (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, German subtitles, released in Feb 1923
Minutes: 72

Timeless tale we can all relate to, of heart-warming harmony in an ordinary family of loyal mother, loving father, and compassionate daughter passionately trying to get a head in life.

Featured elements:

: abstraction; abuse; agent of discontent; alienation; beheading; boozy-woozy; breaking class; comedy; dance; dance-orientale; dark comedy; diva mode; execution; family; femme fatale; obsession; prison; psycho; religion; revenge; servitude; suicide; unrequited love

Exposed To Danger (殺機/冷眼殺機)

Yang Chia-Yun/楊家雲 (director)
Shih Chi-Yu/施繼裕 (planning)
Wong Mau-San/黃茂山 (music)
Lu Hsiao-Fen/陸小芬 (lead)
Alan Tam Wing-Lun/譚詠麟 (lead)
Chang Fu-Mei/張富美 (lead)
Tong Kei/唐琪 (lead)
Hua Lun/華倫 (lead)
Chen Chi-Chen/陳志珍 (lead)
Richard Chen/陳耀圻 (producer)
Chiang Hsien-Cheng/江顯成 (producer)
J. S. Chiang/江日昇 (presenter)

Language: Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese and English subtitles, released in Jul 1982
Minutes: 97

Lu Hsiao-Fen plays an attractive young woman trying to start a new life in a small town. The men go gaga, the women hate her guts and do their best to make her miserable - putting Hsiao-Fen on the receiving end of female vengeance for a change. But she shows she can take it just as well as she dishes it out, because she has a secret weapon: she's just back from eight years in the slammer, so nothing the hick yokel dames throw at her can top what she's already been through. Well-paced yarn with intense performances from the women, near-zombie performances from the men, and a terribly annoying soundtrack (which seems to be a standard feature of Richard Chen's work at that time).

Featured elements:

: alienation; beheading; bookends; business; crime; ex-con; family; female avenger; flashback; manipulator; newsroom; police procedural; prison; psycho; revenge; romance; suspense; Taiwan Black Movies; treachery; unrequited love; wrong man

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