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Works featuring "pimp" (1)

The Abyss/Woman Always Pays (Afgrunden)

Urban Gad (director/writer)
Alfred Lind (cinematographer)
Asta Nielsen (lead)

Language: Silent, Danish titles, English subtitles, released in Sep 1910
Minutes: 37

Nearly four years before the screen debut of sex symbol Theda Bara, came this lurid melodrama (sort of a gender flip of Bizet's Carmen) of a theatrical bronco-busting cowgirl who fails to make her life mirror her art.

Featured elements:

: abuse; animal act; antihero; backstage; biking; breaking class; catfight; circus; cowboys; dance; death scene; homme fatale; infidelity; melodrama; obsession; pimp; religion; road to ruin; sexuality; tragic artist; unemployment; unrequited love

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