The Face at the Window (1919 film)

The Face at the Window
Directed by Charles Villiers
Produced by David B. O'Connor
Written by Gertrude Lockwood
Based on play by F. Brooke Warren
Starring David B. O'Connor
Cinematography Lacey Percival
Production
company
D.B. O'Connor Feature Films
Release date
 8 November 1919
Running time
 5 reels[1]
Country Australia
Language Silent film
English intertitles

The Face at the Window is a 1919 Australian silent film about a master criminal and murderer chased after by the police. It was based on a popular 1897 play.[2]

Plot

In Paris, a thief and murderer known as Le Loup (actually Lucio Delgrade) hides his identity behind a mask and howls before he kills his victims. He has killed 36 people in all. He kills a caretaker while rifling a safe. Then he stabs a banker, M. de Brison, whose daughter Marie has spurned his advances. Detective Paul Gouffet investigates but Le Loup kills him. However the detective is revived from the dead through a device invented from a mad doctor and his hand writes the name of Le Loup's real identity. The police go after him and Le Loup is shot while trying to escape.[3]

Cast

  • D.B. O'Connor as Lucio Delgrade
  • Agnes Dobson as Marie de Brison
  • Claude Turton as Paul Gouffet
  • Gerald Harcourt as Lucien Cortier
  • Collet Dobson as M. de Brison
  • Charles Villiers as Barbelon
  • Percy Walshe as Dr Le Blanc
  • Lulu Vincent as Mother Pinau
  • Syd Everett as Barlet
  • Millie Carlton as maid
  • Charles Beetham as Prefect of Police
  • D.L. Dalziel was Detective Drummond
  • Gilbert Emery as caretaker of bank

Production

The movie was one of several based on a popular stage play. It was shot in the Rushcutters Bay study in March and April 1918. Censors requested the deletion of a scene where a policeman is stabbed by Le Loup.[2]

It was the film debut of popular stage actor Agnes Dobson.[4] She later reprised the role on stage.[5]

Reception

The film was a popular success and was widely seen[2]

Variety called it "the rankest kind of melodrama... might do as burlesque."[6]

References

  1. ↑ "OLYMPIA (MOUNT MORGAN) THEATRE". The Morning Bulletin. Rockhampton, Qld.: National Library of Australia. 16 February 1920. p. 10. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 92.
  3. ↑ ""THE FACE AT THE WINDOW."". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 10 February 1920. p. 6. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  4. ↑ "What Women Are Doing". The Australian Women's Weekly. National Library of Australia. 23 March 1935. p. 16. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  5. ↑ "Amusements". The Register. Adelaide: National Library of Australia. 26 May 1926. p. 15. Retrieved 24 July 2012.
  6. ↑ http://lantern.mediahist.org/catalog/variety57-1920-01_0024


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