Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Whispering shadows, and ; The Devil's assistant / produced for video and scored by Andrew E. Simpson.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : Undercrank Productions, [2017]

Description:

1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white and tinted ; 4 3/4 in.

burning

digital optical

NTSC

video file region 0

DVD video

Summary:

Whispering shadows: Just before his sudden death, a businessman accuses his son-in-law of embezzlement. His daughter is convinced of her fiance's innocence and tries to clear his name and unmask the real villain and is aided by secret messages...from her dead father. Or are they?

The devil's assistant: Portrays the ravages of opiates, the terrible drugs which drive the user to deeds of desperation--enslave her will--enchain her to those who use or dispense the 'dope.'

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Embezzlement -- Drama.

Occultism -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Jealousy -- Drama.

Drug abuse -- Drama.

Genre:

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Short films.

Propaganda films.

Other Author:

Simpson, Andrew E., film producer, composer.

Cotton, Lucy, 1891-1948, actor.

Fischer, Margarita, 1886-1975, actor.

Peerless Feature Producing Co., production company.

Pollard Picture Plays, production company.

Mutual Star Productions, production company.

Undercrank Productions, publisher, film distributor.

Other Title:

Devil's assistant

Notes:

Originally produced as motion pictures in 1917 and 1921.

"Whispering shadows is presented here from a unique home-use 28mm film print preserved by the Library of Congress, and The devil's assistant is from a print held by the USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive, made decades ago from a deteriorating nitrate 35mm."--Container.

New musical score by Andrew E. Simpson.

Whispering shadows: Lucy Cotton, Charles A. Stevenson, Philip Merrivale, Robert Barrat.

Devils's assistant: Margarita Fischer, Jack Mower, Monroe Salisbury, Kathleen Kirkham.

DVD, NTSC, region free, stereo.

Silent with intertitles; musical score.

Contents:

Whispering shadows (1921 ; 68 min.) / Peerless Feature Producing Co. presents ; scene sequence and subtitles by Harry Chandlee and William B. Laub -- The Devil's assistant (1917 ; 23 min.) / Pollard Picture Plays ; Mutual Star Productions ; adapted and produced by Harry Pollard ; story by J. Edward Hungerford

Other Number:

1031038946

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

718179

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Whisperi