Sylvia Martin runs away from her abusive father and almost succumbs to the cold on the doorstep of Louis Gordon, a crook. They marry, but later when faced with capture, Gordon kills himself.
George Broadhurst, Lillian Trimble Bradley
United States
In the pantheon of silent era melodramas, few films capture the claustrophobic anxiety of social surveillance with the same vitriolic intensity as Hobart Henley’s 1919 production, The Woman on the Index. At a time when the world was reeling from the tectonic shifts of the Great War and the burgeoning Red Scare, this fi...
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"In the pantheon of silent era melodramas, few films capture the claustrophobic anxiety of social surveillance with the same vitriolic intensity as Hobart Henley’s 1919 production, The Woman on the Index. At a time when the world was reeling from the tectonic shifts of the Great War and the burgeoning Red Scare, this film serves as a chilling palimpsest of American paranoia and the fragile nature of female reputation. It is not merely a story of a woman with a past; it is a harrowing examination ..."
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