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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "forsaken" (24)

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Out West

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle (director/lead/writer)
George Peters (cinematographer)
Natalie Talmadge (writer)
Al St. John (lead)
Buster Keaton (lead)
Alice Lake (lead)
Joe Keaton (lead)
Comique (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Jan 1918
Minutes: 20

A parody of the conventions of Wild West movies - clearly a slapdash attempt to capitalize on the box-office success of 1974's Blazing Saddles.

Featured elements:

: action; animal act; antihero; comedy; cowboys; dark comedy; death scene; ethnic stereotype; forsaken; gambling; parody; redemption; rescue; slapstick; torture; train; tramp; unstoppable menace; white savior; white supremacy; zero to hero

Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent (Молчи, грусть, молчи)

Pyotr Chardynin (director/lead)
Vladimir Siversen (cinematographer)
Vera Kholodnaya (lead)
Vitold Polonsky (lead)
Olga Rakhmanova (lead)
Kharitonov (production)

Language: Silent, Russian titles, English subtitles, released in May 1918
Minutes: 45

Apparently, an attempt to address class conflict in the standard weepy melodramatic format (complete with violin). While the fragments that remain do not provide a convincing critique (compare with Child of the Big City (1914)), it's still more substantial than other surviving works by this director.

Featured elements:

: addiction; backstage; breaking class; circus; flashback; forsaken; gambling; gold digger; melodrama; metatheatre; music; poverty; prejudice; servitude; sugar daddy; treachery

Carmen/Gypsy Blood

Ernst Lubitsch (director)
Alfred Hansen (cinematographer)
Hanns Kräly (writer)
Prosper Mérimée (author)
Pola Negri (lead)
Harry Liedtke (lead)
PAGU (production)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Dec 1918
Minutes: 80

The power of a Carmen production derives from a hot Carmen and a tortured Don José. This version is only semi-powered: we see a tortured José, but this Carmen has nothing that could make a good man fall. So, a heavy dose of suspension of belief is required to get through this, yet in the end it wasn't worth the effort.

Featured elements:

: Bizet's Carmen; bookends; dance; death scene; ethnic stereotype; femme fatale; forsaken; music; obsession; prison

The Peach Girl (桃花泣血記)

Bu Wan-Cang/蔔萬蒼 (director/writer)
Huang Shao-Fen/黃紹芬 (cinematographer)
Ruan Ling-Yu/阮玲玉 (lead)
Jin Yan/金焰 (lead)
Wang Gui-Lin/王桂林 (lead)
Li S.Y./李時苑 (lead)
Lily Chow Lee-Lee/周麗麗 (lead)
Liu Ji-Qun/劉繼群 (lead)
Lianhua (production)

Language: Silent, Chinese and English titles, released in 1931, month unknown
Minutes: 95

Naive but willing farm girl falls for rich but dysfunctional adult crack baby who calls her 'chaste' but treats her like a slut. But the affair is opposed by his strictly orthodox but stoned-out junkie mom in this clichéd but engaging hyper-tragicum that proves that contradictions are the spice of life.

Featured elements:

: addiction; breaking class; death scene; family; fighting; forbidden love; foreshadowing; forsaken; melodrama; pathos; prejudice; romance; unemployment; unplanned parenthood

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