It is amazing how many silent films all sorts of hatches, secret passages, manholes, fake doors and other obsessions. In almost every picture, for example, there is a door in the floor, where the main villain must hide, fleeing from the police. And the police always burst into the room in a crowd, shooting randomly anywhere, wrapping the scene in dense white smoke.
In the film Griffith ' Conscience-Avenger' one policeman seems to know everything about the movie, so in advance he nails a hole in the floor of the barn, which leads to the death of the main character-killer.
Painting by Leonce Perret 'Child of Paris' - a melodrama in Dickensian style, not devoid of, however, elements of adventure tape, characteristic of the films of another French director - Louis Fayad. The story of the girl, who got first into the shelter, and then into the clutches of the Parisian pirates & #39, is very touching and skillfully put. And here it was not without a hatch in the floor and a passage to the roof, which allow the characters to escape and, at the same time, change the reality of the stage space.
Views of Paris and Nice in 1913 (the last year before the First World War, which marked the beginning of Modernity) are pleasing to the eye. The main character gracefully rubs her eyes and generally plays very soulfully, having studied the classic gestures of the actors a little movie. For example, a completely adult in despair and tears rushes to the bed or wrings hands.
Fans of silent cinema, prone to film nostalgia, as well as all eccentric fans of faded films are recommended.