The Devil's Bondwoman

The Devil's Bondwoman (1916)

After a prologue that takes place in Hell, young millionaire Mason Van Horton becomes involved with Doria, the vampish wife of influential businessman John Manners. When Mason falls in love with Beverly Hope, however, he rejects Doria, who, out of revenge, tells John that Mason tried to seduce her and then begs her husband to ruin him.

Date of release
1916-11-20
Runtime
50m
Genres
Drama
Director
Lloyd B. Carleton

Casting

Interesting facts

The Devil's Bondwoman is a 1916 American silent Melodrama directed by Lloyd B. Carleton. The film was based on the story by F. McGrew Willis and scenarized by Maie B. Havey and Fred Myton. The movie features Dorothy Davenport and Emory Johnson and employed the same cast seen in other Red Feather films, e.g., Barriers of Society, Black Friday.

Production

In the book, "American Cinema's Transitional Era," the authors point out, The years between 1908 and 1917 witnessed what may have been the most significant transformation in American film history. During this "transitional era", widespread changes affected film form and film genres, filmmaking practices and industry structure, exhibition sites, and audience demographics. One aspect of this transition was the longer duration of films.

Laemmle would continue to buck this trend while slowly increasing his output of features.

In 1914, Laemmle published an essay titled - Doom of long Features Predicted. In 1916, Laemmle ran an advertisement extolling Bluebird films while adding the following vocabulary on the top of the ad.

Universal made 91 feature films in 1916, including 44 Bluebirds and 47 Red Feather productions.

This film was labeled with Universal's Red Feather brand, indicating it was a low-budget feature film. This film was the 43rd Red Feather feature film produced by Universal in 1916.

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