Works featuring "treachery" (51)
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In The Hands Of Impostors (Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer)

Oddly, the impostors' ruse starts with a primitive hit-or-miss con act repeatedly performed in full public view - yet we are to believe that this silly stunt fronts an elaborate well-tuned network. While the patsy is still in the clutches of the con woman, a masher also swoops down on her - and she again falls victim to yet another persistent motor-mouth. Not long after she steps into the hands of the impostors, the film breaks down in hopeless confusion. The impostors (who remain unnamed, just referred to as “the impostors”) phone the blackmailer (misnamed “Mr. Bright”), who quickly has his hands all over the patsy. Meanwhile, the persistent masher (aptly named “Engineer Faith”) catches on to the flimflam and leaps on his White Knight horse. But before he arrives, another blackmailer (mysteriously named “Lord X”) muscles in on Mr. Bright and nabs the patsy - which leads Mr. Bright to counter by paying to have her kidnapped from Lord X. Meanwhile, amidst this torrent of cock brawls, no one has turned a dime of profit off the patsy - nor has anyone revealed any plans to cash in. This seems to be merely a confusing tale of a town desperately in need of new nooky. Still, the patsy - and the movie - is saved by a delightfully daring cock-buster.

Let this serve as a lesson for solo travellers, showing how personal information shared with strangers can be used harmfully - i.e. as a plot for a time-wasting movie.

Most interesting was the train station exit scene, which shows passers-by gawking at the camera and performers - a quaint record of the days before mobile digital devices, when people actually paid attention to their surroundings.

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The Treacherous Woman/The Traitress (Die Verräterin)

In the castle of Marquis de Bougival, his daughter Yvonne is relaxing with a book and playing with her pussy when she is interrupted by her father's call for her to meet one of Kaiser Wilhelm's military twits who, with his troop of half-wits, has taken over the castle, getting his jollies by bullying the servants and strutting around like a zombie who's had a broomstick shoved up its ass and through its head. Of course Yvonne's pissed, but she defers to Pops and gives the zombie a perfunctory nod before making a quick exit. Later, not to be outdone by that sash-sporting fop, she prettied up and left the pussy-petting to the maid - only to be stood up as the zombie hogged the house hooch and relaxed with a book while sucking his stiff stick. But the final insult came when he insisted it was proper for one of his thugs to maul and detain her on her own property. Now the real war is on: that punk has to pay...

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The Dance Of Death/Song of Death (Der Totentanz)

Yet another work that starts with a lengthy lament of the difficulties of the restoration, and the hacks to work around them, that serves as a warning: don't expect much. This film indeed lived down to that disclaimer. Viewers are, however, mistreated to a musical performance that is sure to have audiences on their feet shouting: “Lady, don't quit your day job!”