Miss Mend

1926 ComedyAdventure 190 minutes Directed by Fyodor Otsep

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About Miss Mend

Office worker Vivian Mend and reporters Tom Hopkins and Barnet find a plan by Western businessmen to hit the USSR with germs. The three reporters and Vivian chase the plot across the serial's three parts.

Cast & crew

More about Miss Mend

Boris Barnet and Fyodor Otsep directed it. Barnet also acts and is credited with the writing. Natalya Glan plays Vivian. Vladimir Fogel, Igor Ilyinsky, and Sergei Komarov are billed. Mezhrabpom-Rus released it in 1926, in three parts. It runs 190 minutes. It is loosely based on Marietta Shaginyan's Mess-Mend novels. Another title is The Adventures of the Three Reporters.

Themes

  • A germ attack on the USSR
  • Reporters on the case
  • An office girl in the chase
  • Vivian Mend
  • Boris Barnet
  • Mezhrabpom
  • Shaginyan

Preservation

A surviving print runs over four hours. David Shepard restored it.

Notes

  • Ivan Koval-Samborsky is also billed.
  • The story is a spy adventure, played as a serial.
  • David Shepard restored a print, and Flicker Alley issued it on DVD in December 2009.

Scenes

  • The reporters and Vivian pick up the trail of the biological plot.
  • The chase runs through the three parts.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Miss Mend (1926).webm)
  • Flicker Alley DVD (2009)