Word: villainizing
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...Vicinity went to the movies to cheer news reef pictures of the "boys" off for the trenches and to curse the "Boche" and the "Hun". This week Mr. and Mrs. Smith sat through and obviously enjoyed a moving picture whose here is a German prisoner of war, whose villain is a French officer, whose subject is the mean absurdity of all war and war spirit. "Barbed Wire" is the finest and most complete pictorial indictment of war which has appeared. It must quite frankly be considered "propaganda art." Nevertheless, Mr. and Mrs. Smith applaud...
...Million Bid (Dolores Costello, Warner Oland). The title indicates how much Millionaire Geoffrey Marsh (Warner Oland) paid Mrs. Gordon (Betty Blythe) for arranging his marriage to her glossy daughter, Dorothy (Dolores Costello). The film indicates how Villain Marsh gives over to Hero Brent (Malcolm McGregor) after a storm...
Fighting Love (Jetta Goudal, Henry B. Walthall, Victor Varconi). A young Italian beauty marries her father's friend to escape a cad. The villain forthwith orders her husband to Tripoli. Following him into the desert, she falls in love with her handsome officer escort, marries him when her husband's death is reported. Her husband returns, only to commit convenient suicide. Endless shots of Miss Goudal staring vacantly into space between scenes of bloody Arab forays, slow up the action...
Trial Judge Webster Thayer, cast by Sacco-Vanzetti adherents as the villain of the plot, said last week: "I have made my position clear enough. I did what I had to do. What more can I say? I can only maintain a judicial silence...
...impecunious, consumptive scientist needs $900 to perfect his tuberculosis remedy. His good wife earns just that sum by vending her virtue to the villain. Her subsequent endless remorse is no more awful than the boredom of the audience. The play is embellished by glimpses into dens of vice along Riverside Drive...