Eye for Eye (film)
| Eye for Eye | |
|---|---|
 Lobby card | |
| Directed by | Albert Capellani |
| Written by | Henry Kistemaeckers (play) June Mathis Albert Capellani |
| Produced by | Richard A. Rowland Maxwell Karger Alla Nazimova |
| Starring | Alla Nazimova |
| Cinematography | Eugene Gaudio |
| Distributed by | Metro Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Eye for Eye is 1918 American silent drama film directed by Albert Capellani. It was produced by Richard A. Rowland and Alla Nazimova and distributed by Metro Pictures. Nazimova is also the star in a production scripted by June Mathis. A trailer of the film is currently held in the Library of Congress, and evidence has arisen that a copy may exist in Gosfilmofond in Russia.[1][2][3]
Plot
[edit]As described in a film magazine,[4] Arabs have captured the French Captain de Cadiere (Bryant), but he escapes with the help of Hassouna (Nazimova), a young Bedouin woman of the desert. She is abandoned to die by the irate sheik (Stern), is captured by marauders of the desert sands, and is sold in slavery to the manager of a small French circus. The Captain, at a show near a small town where his ship is anchored, finds the Bedouin woman and takes her to his home. After hearing that the Captain's detachment has killed all of her tribe in the desert, she vows vengeance upon the Frenchman. However, she fails in the execution of her threat due to his love for her.
Cast
[edit]- Alla Nazimova as Hassouna
- Charles Bryant as Captain de Cadiere
- Donald Gallaher as Ensign Arnauld
- Sally Crute as Madame Helene de Cadiere
- E. L. Fernandez as Taieb
- John Reinhardt as Paul Lecroix
- Louis Stern as The Sheik
- Charles Eldridge as Tootit, the Clown
- Hardee Kirkland as Rambert, Circus Proprietor
- Miriam Battista as Hassouna's Little Sister
- William A. Cohill (unidentified role)
- William T. Carleton (unidentified role)
uncredited
- Anita Brown
- Barry Whitcomb
Reception
[edit]Like many American films of the time, Eye for Eye was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 3, of the kissing between the wife and her lover, Reel 4, the lover kissing the woman on her shoulder, kissing between the married woman and lover at door, Reel 7, the vision of the party, and the nude woman on the couch.[5]
See also
[edit]- The West (1938)
References
[edit]- ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". Silentera.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911–20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988
- ^ "Eye For Eye". Lcweb2.loc.gov. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Reviews: Eye for Eye". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (25). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 29. December 14, 1918.
- ^ "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (24): 42. December 7, 1918.
External links
[edit]
- Eye for Eye at IMDb
- Eye for Eye at AllMovie
- Film still at silenthollywood.com]
- lobby poster
- 1918 films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent feature films
- Films directed by Albert Capellani
- 1918 romantic drama films
- Films set in France
- Films set in Algeria
- Films set in the French colonial empire
- Metro Pictures films
- 1910s American films
- Silent American romantic drama films
- 1910s English-language films
- English-language romantic drama films