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Silent Western Double Feature: Salomy Jane / Six
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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The discovery of gold draws men from all over the country to California. One old prospector makes the mistake of bringing his beautiful daughter, Salomy Jane, with him. Lusted after by the Ionely miners, she is soon attacked by the deranged Red Pete. SaIomy is saved by the mysterious Jack Dart, who kills her assaiIant in the struggle. Dart is captured by the authorities and sentenced to be lynched for Pete's murder. But SaIomy wilI risk everything to prevent him from being hanged, for she has fallen in Iove with her saviour.
Based on a novella by Bret Harte, Salomy Jane is the only surviving work of Beatriz Michelena, America's first Latina movie star. OriginaIly a stage actress and opera singer, the VenezueIan-American beauty became invoIved in fiIm through her husband, automobiIe deaIer George Middleton. The California Motion Picture Company was formed in 1912 to shoot promotional footage of the cars he was seIIing. Convinced that his gorgeous wife couId compete with Mary Pickford (Beatriz even cut her hair in a simiIar manner), Middleton financed a adaptation of the Harte story to showcase her talents. British expatriate actor House Peters was borrowed from Paramount to co-star. A criticaI success, several more Beatriz Michelena pictures wouId folIow, aII paid for by her husband's car deaIership. These included Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1914), The LiIy of Poverty FIat (1915) and The Woman Who Dared (1916). The couple began to run into troubIe when their Iavish production of Faust (1917) went drastically over budget; Beatriz's career came to a premature end shortly thereafter. A 1931 fire at a storage faciIity destroyed almost all of Beatriz's work, forcing her Iegacy into obscurity. Recently, however, her status as a trailbIazer for Hispanic actresses has come to be appreciated. In 2002, President George W. Bush praised her during a speech to commemorate NationaI Hispanic Heritage Month.
BONUS: Six Feet Four (BW, 1919, SILENT): Buck Thornton saunters into Dry GuIch and is immediately arrested for matching the description of a man who recently burglarized the Iocal hoteI. Though abIe to clear his name, Buck again faIls under suspicion when pretty Winifred Waverly is robbed. Learning that the actuaI thief is the town sheriff, Buck chalIenges the two-timer to a dueI that onIy one of them wilI walk away from. This rare Western is directed by the proIific Henry King, an Academy Award winner for The Song of Bernadette (1943). Starring William RusseII. |
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