Votes for Women
Named by historian Kevin Brownlow as “the first important suffrage film”, this melodrama follows suffragist May Fillmore in her fight to sway Senator Herman, whose vote could pass a key reform bill. After exposing him and his fiancée Jane Wadsworth to the dire living conditions of a motherless tenement family—unsanitary housing, child labor, and workplace exploitation—Jane turns against her negligent fiancé and joins the suffrage cause. Ultimately, both Herman and Jane’s father are persuaded to support reform, and the film ends with the characters proudly taking part in a suffrage parade. (Note: This silent narrative film is distinct from Edison’s Votes for Women (1913), a Kinetophone short that recorded real suffragist leaders delivering speeches.)
Year: 1912
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Studio: Reliance Film Company
Director: Hal Reid
Cast: Edgena De Lespine, Gertrude Robinson, Sue Balfour, Pearl Egan, Gladys Egan, Charles Herman
Crew: Harriet Laidlaw (Writer), Mary Ware Dennett (Writer), Hal Reid (Director), Frances Maule Bjorkman (Writer)
Runtime: 20 minutes
Release: Jun 25, 1912
IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1 users
Popularity: 1
Country: United States of America
Language: No Language
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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