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Ashes of Vengeance

1923120 minUnited States
Drama

Synopsis

During the violence against France's Huguenots, Rupert accepts years of servitude to save himself and his fiancée. He enters the household of a rival Catholic nobleman, where old hostilities shape every encounter. Courage in protecting the family gradually complicates the contempt with which he is treated.

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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
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105:16
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · Frank Lloyd · Public domain

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Cast

DirectorsFrank Lloyd

Historical context

Frank Lloyd's historical melodrama places private obligation and romance against the persecution surrounding the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Norma Talmadge and Wallace Beery appear within its large-scale recreation of sixteenth-century conflict.

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