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The Villain Still Pursued Her is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward F. Cline released in USA on 11 october 1940 with Richard Cromwell

The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)

The Villain Still Pursued Her
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Released in USA 11 october 1940
Length 1h6
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romance
Rating55% 2.7600952.7600952.7600952.7600952.760095

The Villain Still Pursued Her is a 1940 film starring Billy Gilbert and Buster Keaton. It was a parody of old stage melodramas, but based primarily on The Drunkard, a 19th-century prohibitionist play by William H. Smith of Boston. That play had also been lampooned in other productions, most notably in the 1934 W. C. Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way.

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Le mélodrame victorien obtient un grand envoi dans cette production parodie de la vieille pièce "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved". La pièce dans le film est l'ancienne où le méchant méchant Cribbs envisage de mettre ses griffes vigoureuses sur l'héroïne en conduisant son mari naïf à la ruine alcoolique. Heureusement, un conférencier en tempérance est sur place pour mettre les choses au clair, tout comme le grand Buster Keaton en tant qu'ami de l'ivrogne.

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