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The Despoiler

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Original title

The Despoiler

Year

1915

Running time

60 min.

Country

United States

Director

Reginald Barker

Screenwriter

J.G. Hawks, Thomas H. Ince

Cast

Music

Louis F. Gottschalk (Silent Movie)

Cinematography

Bob Newhart (B&W)

Producer

Kay-Bee Pictures, New York Motion Picture Corporation

Genre

Drama. War | I World War. Silent Film

Synopsis

The original, according to a contemporary review, involves a border war in which troops invade a small town. The leader of the darkskinned horde fastens on one beautiful woman, who has taken refuge in a nunnery. She is about to sacrifice herself to save the others, when the colonel learns that she is his own daughter. She is saved, and at the very end the whole thing is shown to have been a dream. The French version Châtiment (“Punishment”), painstakingly restored by the Cinémathèque Française in 2010, was modified to fit propaganda demands of the war period. Here the daughter really gets raped, and she shoots her attacker. The colonel turns his troops loose on the nunnery, but halts them in time when he realizes who the victim is. No dream stuff here. (David Bordwell)

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The Despoiler

1915

Reginald Barker