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The Villain Still Pursued Her

194066 minUnited States
ComedyDrama
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Original language
English
This copy runs
66:28
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English

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Synopsis

A young woman and her mother cannot meet the mortgage on their cottage. A conspicuously sinister visitor sees an opportunity, while a kindly young man enters their lives. Financial danger and romantic innocence become the ingredients of an exaggerated battle between virtue and villainy.

Cast

DirectorsEdward F. Cline

Inspirations

The film parodies nineteenth-century stage melodrama, particularly William H. Smith's temperance play The Drunkard. Its emphatic villain and endangered heroine deliberately display the conventions the comedy is mocking.

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