Word: villainized
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...Joker. A ponderous pair of deep red curtains and the personality of Ralph Morgan are the chief points of interest in this play. Through these red curtains the hero is forced to walk at the big moment-presumably to instant death. His bravery unhinges the villain and pretty soon it is time to go home...
Satan in Sables. Good old cinema staple is hereby rewoven into a routine romance of Paris. The presence of Lowell Sherman, lurid villain of many a legitimate production (and of D. W. Griffith's Way Down East), is the only unusual feature. He plays a Russian millionaire on the loose in the French capital. There is the usual sweet and simple cocotte from Montmartre to enthrall him. If you like Hm on the stage, you will approve him in this movie-if you like the movies...
...seven years he has sat serenely on the international powder box. A snapping-jawed, tight-lipped man, he has scared away the rascals. A jovial good fellow with pockets full of laughs, he has out-joked the wily villain. A great seaman, he has understood the fighting...
...Love Hour. Another aged theme works overtime to entertain and does not make the incline. A rich man marries a shop girl and the villain tries to get her to divorce him. Love triumphs...
Jake Zobetser (villain) : "With his huge, rounded shoulders, fat neck and enormous head bent over the desk, and his thin legs that appeared inadequate to carry the bulk of his body, he looked not unlike some uncouth monster of a fairy tale...