Pauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself..
Charles W. Goddard, Basil Dickey, George B. Seitz
United States
Paris, spring 1914. Outside the Gaumont Palace, gendarmes hold back a tidal wave of bowler hats and feathered bonnets desperate for the next installment of a heroine who has already been tied to sawmill logs, dragged behind horses, and dangled from a burning balloon. Inside, the projector clatters like a Maxim gun: fr...
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Louis J. Gasnier
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" Paris, spring 1914. Outside the Gaumont Palace, gendarmes hold back a tidal wave of bowler hats and feathered bonnets desperate for the next installment of a heroine who has already been tied to sawmill logs, dragged behind horses, and dangled from a burning balloon. Inside, the projector clatters like a Maxim gun: frame after frame, Pearl White—the girl with the bullet-proof grin—races toward another contrived oblivion. No one in the suffocating dark guesses they are witnessing the birth certi..."
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