Word: feyder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little daughter whom he has to quarrel with. The struggle of his loyalty against new conditions becomes a struggle between him and his stepsister. Prose, which is life itself and which can be made out of pictures even better than out of words, is the vehicle of Director Jacques Feyder. He makes as exciting as a melodrama a scene of two children ostracizing another child from a game. Other shots: the feet of farmers under a coffin fumbling on a wooden stairway; a boy who has been punished raving at the closed door of his room; a hay-harvest...
...suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown to the U. S., directed by Jacques (Faces of Children) Feyder, this is the first picture in which the resources of continental literature are realized in a photography comparable to Hollywood...