Very Entertaining. The first part is very suspenseful as the viewer is left wondering what exactly is going on. We see dead bodies and a hungry, thirsty peasant and out of the blue comes a beautiful woman who offers food in return for protection.
Barbara Bedford is elegant and plays her part well. Lon Chaney is very believable as an ignorant uneducated peasant with a good heart. It is easy to see why he would fall in love with Bedford...she is gorgeous in this film. His acting is superb.
Emily Fitzroy is hilarious as the conceited upper class snob who thinks the world was made to serve her. Mack Swain is less convincing. Ricardo Cortez plays his rather small part well as Bedford's romantic interest. Kai Schmidt seems to have huge amounts of makeup in some shots where he looks ghastly while in others he looks almost normal. Watch for an early appearance of Johnny Mack Brown who appears as an extra.
The modern score is terrible so I watched the film with a period musical score from 1928 ("A Woman Of Affairs") which fit nicely with the mood of the film.
Barbara Bedford is elegant and plays her part well. Lon Chaney is very believable as an ignorant uneducated peasant with a good heart. It is easy to see why he would fall in love with Bedford...she is gorgeous in this film. His acting is superb.
Emily Fitzroy is hilarious as the conceited upper class snob who thinks the world was made to serve her. Mack Swain is less convincing. Ricardo Cortez plays his rather small part well as Bedford's romantic interest. Kai Schmidt seems to have huge amounts of makeup in some shots where he looks ghastly while in others he looks almost normal. Watch for an early appearance of Johnny Mack Brown who appears as an extra.
The modern score is terrible so I watched the film with a period musical score from 1928 ("A Woman Of Affairs") which fit nicely with the mood of the film.