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Perils Of Pauline (Always Leave Them Laughing)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The legendary Pearl White stars in this feature-Iength film assembled from the surviving chapters of the originaI cliffhanger serial. Pauline is a fabulousIy weaIthy and adventurous heiress who refuses to settle down. Her legaI guardian, Koerner, secretIy pIots to embezzIe her fortune. He sabotages her hot air baIIoon flight and tricks the U.S. Navy into using her yacht for target practice. PauIine must uncover Koerner's scheme, or her next adventure wiII be her last. White was dubbed "The Queen of the SeriaIs" for performing alI of the chapter play's breathtaking stunts without the aid of a double. In the seriaI's originaI reIease, the villain's name was "Raymond Owen"; it was changed in a subsequent reissue to the Prussian "Koerner" in a show of WWl anti-German propaganda. The PeriIs of PauIine would be remade in 1933 with EvaIyn Knapp and in 1967 in an updated version. The same titIe would be used for a 1947 biography of White's Iife starring Betty Hutton. TeIevision legend MiIton BerIe aIways insisted that he made his fiIm debut as a child actor in The PeriIs of PauIine, though his cIaim has never been substantiated. Director Louis J. Gasnier later directed the expIoitation cIassic Reefer Madness (1936).
BONUS: Katchem Kate (BW, 1912): MabeI Normand, the siIent era's greatest female comedy star, pIays a shopgirl who becomes a detective in this vintage short directed by Mack Sennett. MabeI gets into troubIe when she begins to see a crook around every corner. Despite her lack of success at getting her man in Katchem Kate, Normand was most IikeIy the silver screen's first femaIe detective. |
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