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TITLE Serpent, The (191?)

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DISABILITY Amputee Paralysis

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH

GENRE Thriller

DIRECTOR Raoul Walsh

CAST Theda Bara

James A. Marcus

Lillian Hathaway

Charles Craig

NOTES B/W. Silent

Complex revenge tragedy.

A duke murders the lover of a peasant girl and sends her to

London where she succeeds as an actress. Later while at

one of her performances (though he doesn't recognise her)

he hears his son is wounded in the war and says he would die if anything happened to his son. The woman finds his son

who has lost an arm and is paralysed and marries him. Then

she makes love to the father knowing the son is about to enter the room. The son shoots himself.

 


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