Alice Guy Collection (8 Films) ( The Glue (La glu) / Greater Love Hath No Man / Falling Leaves / The Detective's Dog / The Girl in the Arm-Chair / The Pit and the Pendulum / A House Divided / Matrimony's Speed Limit )

Alice Guy Collection (8 Films) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Glue (La glu) / Greater Love Hath No Man / Falling Leaves / The Detective's Dog / The Girl in the Arm-Chair / The Pit and the Pendulum / A House Divided / Matrimony's Speed Limit
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Silent ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
110 min + 52 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1907 - 1913 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alice Guy

Written By:
Alice Guy
Edgar Allan Poe

Actors:
Alice Guy
Mace Greenleaf ..... Dr. Earl Headley - a Lung Specialist
Blanche Cornwall ..... Mrs. Griswold Thompson - the Mother
Marian Swayne ..... Winifred Thompson
Magda Foy ..... Little Trixie Thompson
Darwin Karr ..... Mr. Griswold Thompson
Darwin Karr ..... James Harper - Secret Service Detective
Blanche Cornwall ..... Mary Harper - Jim's Wife
Magda Foy ..... Kitty Harper - Jim's Child
Lee Beggs ..... Richard Toole - Counterfeiter
Blanche Cornwall
Mace Greenleaf
Darwin Karr ..... Alonzo
Fraunie Fraunholz ..... Pedro - the Inquisator
Joseph Levering
Fraunie Fraunholz ..... Gerald Hutton
Marian Swayne ..... Diana Hutton
Fraunie Fraunholz ..... Fraunie
Marian Swayne ..... Marian

Synopsis:

First woman in film history filmmaker Alice Guy began her career in 1894 as secretary in a still-photography company, owned by Léon Gaumont. Thanks to her talent and her strength of character, she has become a pioneer of the cinema and in the space of a decade, a director and producer of Gaumont Studios. She invented the fiction cinema for the first time with actors on camera. In 1910, Alice Guy founded with her husband Herbert Blacé, film studios of The Solax Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey. There the French girl who was not afraid of anything turns action movies that are more responsive to the taste of the American public: comedies of manners, westerns, military films, car chases... (This DVD includes a documentary by Claudia Collao, Looking for Alice)
List of movies directed by Alice Guy:
- The Glu Pot
- Greater Love Hath No Man
- Falling Leaves
- The Detective's Dog
- The Girl in the Armchair
- The Pit and the Pendulum
- A House Divided
- Matrimony Speed Limit

The Glue / The Glu Pot (1907)
This is the story of a pot of glue and the over interfering boy. Finding a pot of glue, the lad immediately proceeds to apply it to everything in sight. Accordingly, the stairway, lawn seat and a bicycle seat and handles are liberally daubed, so that those coming in contact experience much inconvenience in liberating themselves. 'He who laughs last laughs best,' can also be applied in this instance, as, in giving vent to his amusement, the lad falls back on to the pot and is unable to liberate himself.
Greater Love Hath No Man (1911)
Short film by Alice Guy about a Western love triangle.
Falling Leaves (1912)
This autumn, Dr. Earl Headley is eagerly demonstrating what seems to be a miraculous cure for tuberculosis. Yet not far from where he is working, the disease seems ready to claim yet another life, a young woman named Winifred, who is already seriously ill. Winifred's mother and younger sister Trixie are devastated by the news. When Trixie hears the family doctor say of Winifred that ''when the last leaf falls, she will have passed away'', she interprets the doctor's words literally. Thinking over what she has heard, she determines to do everything possible to save her sister.
The Detective's Dog / The Detective and His Dog (1912)
A 'Dog Rescue' film, an allegedly popular genre of the era. It contains some pretty sophisticated cross-cutting for 1912, and might also be the first film in which someone is tied up to a rapidly approaching buzz saw.
The Girl in the Arm-Chair (1912)
Peggy Wilson (Blanche Cornwall) has recently become an orphan and a ward of the Waston family. She's also inherited the late Robert Wilson's vast fortune, which puts her very much in Mr. Waston's favor. He would like his son, Frank (Mace Greenleaf), to marry Peggy, but Peggy 'is not his style' and 'her money is no inducement'.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1913)
A story of a man who's sentenced to death and tortured by the Spanish Inquisition, using - among other things - a razor sharp pendulum that will cut him right in half. What a way to go.
A House Divided (1913)
Gerald Hutton and his lovely wife Diana grow suspicious of one another through (false) circumstantial evidence. At a lawyer's suggestion 'they agree to live separately together.' Very soon, both regret agreeing not to speak to one another.
Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913)
A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.

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