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Voidsville Follies

Works featuring "honey trap" (3)

The Girl Without A Country/A Romany Spy (Das Mädchen ohne Vaterland)

Urban Gad (director)
Guido Seeber (cinematographer)
Asta Nielsen (lead)

Language: Silent, German titles, English subtitles, released in Nov 1912
Minutes: 32

As in Carmen, when a Gypsy/Romany woman is used on a military man in order to bypass military security, she gets a bit smitten on her sap. Given her first film success, it is surprising that Asta's dance and seduction skills here are laughable. But beware her ninja and blunt-puffing skills! And check out how incongruous her skin color is in the camp...

Featured elements:

: bookends; breaking class; chase; dance; displaced persons; ethnic stereotype; femme fatale; fighting; gender-bender; honey trap; patriotism; prejudice; undercover agent

Diana, l'affascinatrice

Gustavo Serena (director/lead)
Alberto G. Carta (cinematographer)
Renzo Chiosso (writer)
Francesca Bertini (lead)
Carlo Benetti (lead)
Caesar (production)

Language: Silent, French and Dutch titles, English subtitles, released in Dec 1915
Minutes: 60

Three quarters into this film I was still waiting for it to start. Then suddenly a bunch of stuff happened that I couldn't make head nor tails of. After that, it was all over. And I'm not convinced it's worth another try. Given that it's a spy story so characters and their actions may be covert, and that over 25% of the film is missing from this copy, there's no shame in bailing on this puzzler.

Featured elements:

: bombers; diva mode; femme fatale; forbidden love; heroic defender; honey trap; the long fuse; undercover agent

Hell's Hinges

Charles Swickard (director)
Joseph H. August (cinematographer)
C. Gardner Sullivan (writer)
William S. Hart (lead)
Clara Williams (lead)
Jack Standing (lead)
Alfred Hollingsworth (lead)
Louise Glaum (lead)

Language: Silent, English titles, released in Mar 1916
Minutes: 64

Even though this again features Hart as an outlaw gone soft-headed for a dame, it immediately reveals itself as unique because it does not open with Hart's cowboy, and more than ten minutes go by before he finally appears. Instead, the film begins with detailed depiction of the story's primary movers, that the cowboy will find himself forced to deal with. A finely crafted Wild West Sodom and Gomorrah tale - despite its annoying pompous titles and their spoilers.

Featured elements:

: action; agent of discontent; alienation; animal act; antihero; baptism of fire; boozy-woozy; cowboys; displaced persons; ethnic stereotype; family; femme fatale; heroic defender; honey trap; manipulator; melodrama; narration; pathos; persecution; redemption; religion; revenge; treachery; vigilante

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