Wednesday 30 May 2018

A similar snake


The Black Viper (1908)

Directed by D. W. Griffith and Wallace McCutcheon this film stars Edward Dillion and George Gebhardt. A man protects a woman from a thug who comes back with his buddies and kidnaps the hero.

A simple early film building to an action climax in a method similar to many Griffith films. The image quality of the surviving versions of this film is not amazing but it is just about watchable. Overall this is not a very remarkable early film but not the worst you will see either.

3/5

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