The Defect
About The Defect
Anna is taken out of a Paris dance hall and put to work in a charity hospital. Years later she runs the place. A man who knew her at the dance hall sees her picture and tries to blackmail her.
Cast & crew
More about The Defect
Louis Feuillade directed this Gaumont film. The French title is La Tare. Wikidata gives 41 minutes. Jean Aymé, Renée Carl, Henri Collen, Marie Dorly, Alice Tissot, and Edmund Breon are on the cast lists. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Themes
Preservation
A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The blackmail starts from a photograph, not from a meeting in the street.
- The hospital post is the one she rises to after the dance hall.
- Renée Carl is billed with Jean Aymé.
- The Commons file uses the French title.
Scenes
- She is taken from the dance hall into the hospital.
- An old regular finds her picture and starts the blackmail.
