A Fool There Was Movie Review 1914

The rocket that blasted Theda Bara to stardom and launched the vamp film genre. One of the few extant Bara films, it tells the now familiar story of a good man whom crumbles from the heights of moral rectitude thanks to the inescapable influence of an unredeemable vamp. Bette Davis described Bara as "divinely, hysterically, insanely malevolent." Much heavy emoting; subtitled (notoriously) "Kiss Me, My Fool!" Based on Rudyard Kipling's "The Vampire."

Distribution

Video Yesteryear, 2 Ridgedale Ave., Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927, Phone: (203)744-2476

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 70 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Femme Fatale, Silent Films, Books to Film: Rudyard Kipling

Screenplay

Roy L. McCardell

Cast

Mabel Frenyear, Victor Benoit, Theda Bara, Edward Jose, Runa Hodges, Clifford Bruce

Cinematography

George Schneiderman

Director

Frank Powell

Producer

Fox