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The Dumb Girl of Portici is a previously unseen film long overdue for recognition as one of Weber’s finest creations and a landmark in women’s cinema. The production was one of Universal’s most expensive to date and featured an enormous cast, many large-scale sets, and an ambitious story. It was the first blockbuster ever directed by a ...
When Lois Weber (image, left) made The Dumb Girl of Portici for Universal Pictures she was the studios number one director. Studio boss Carl Laemmle was reported as saying he “ would trust Miss Weber with any sum of money that she needed to make any picture”, and so it would prove, with this film being Universal’s biggest, most expensive production to date.
6 de feb. de 2018 · The Dumb Girl of Portici is a big production - spectacular sets, lots of extras. The camera movement, for 1916, was amazing. This is the same year as Intolerance & Joan the Woman - both better films, but Dumb Girl is just as well made. Overall, the film is just OK.
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26 de sept. de 2017 · Female filmmaking pioneer Lois Weber presents a grand opera adapted for silent film, starring the divine Anna Pavlova in her only feature film role.Explore t...
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Adapted from an opera by Daniel Auber, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI tells the story of Fenella (Pavlova), a mute fisher girl living during the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation of Naples, who is seduced and abandoned by a Spanish nobleman. As a result of this betrayal and the oppression of their people, Fenella’s brother foments a revolution.
