Wormwood (1915)

This picture deals with the fates of Gaston Beauvais, an aristocratic young banker of Paris, and Pauline de Chauvilles, his fiancée. Beauvais discovers that Sylvion, his best friend, has long carried on a clandestine love affair with Pauline. An artist acquaintance urges Gaston to comfort himself with absinthe. Gaston in his despair yields. From that moment the wreck of his career begins. Maddened by absinthe, he denounces Pauline at the marriage-altar on his wedding day, as Sylvion's cast-off mistress. Still driven by absinthe, he murders Sylvion and ultimately his brutalities drives Pauline, now a pitiful outcast of the streets, for she fled her home in shame after Gaston cast her off, to end her pathetic existence in the dark waters of the Seine.

Data di uscita
1915-01-01
Durata
50 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
Marshall Farnum

Cast

Curiosità

Wormwood è un film muto del 1915 diretto da Marshall Farnum. La sceneggiatura di Garfield Thompson si basa su Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, romanzo di Marie Corelli pubblicato a Londra nel 1890. Prodotto e distribuito dalla Fox Film Corporation, il film aveva come interpreti John St. Polis, Ethel Kauffman, Charles Arthur, Edgar L. Davenport.

Produzione

Il film - prodotto dalla Fox Film Corporation - fu girato nei Pathé Studios, mentre le riprese in esterno furono girate in Louisiana, a New Orleans.

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