The Devil's Son Has a Wedding in Paris
About The Devil's Son Has a Wedding in Paris
Young Satan is bored in Hell. His parents send him to Paris with a doctor as a guide. He rides, joins a crowd, courts a woman, and reaches an engagement. In church, faced with the sacred objects, he panics and runs. The woman kills herself. At night he goes back to Hell. A convoy of the damned arrives, he recognizes her, wins her pardon, and marries her. The film ends on a round dance and an apotheosis.
Cast & crew
More about The Devil's Son Has a Wedding in Paris
Charles-Lucien Lépine directed and wrote it. André Deed plays the devil's son. Segundo de Chomón photographed. Pathé catalogue number, September 1906, length 350 metres. Lépine had left Pathé on 31 March 1906; the film appears only in the September catalogue. IMDb lists 16 minutes. Other titles: Le Fils du diable, Mephisto's Son, and Son of the Devil. A Folies Bergère dancer is in the cast records.
Themes
Making
Chomón shot Deed's devil as a bourgeois tourist of Paris, using the trick grammar of the period for the hell scenes and the apotheosis.
Look
Segundo de Chomón photographed the Paris streets, the church, and the return to Hell.
Preservation
A print survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- The Pathé summary sends him off in a motor car with the doctor, then through a marriage proposal and a flight from the church.
- The last tableau puts the dead woman among a convoy of the damned so the son can marry her in Hell.
- Lépine had written a scenario called Les 400 coups du Diable. This release is the September 1906 Pathé title.
Scenes
- His parents send him out of Hell for Paris, with a doctor beside him.
- At the church he flees the sacred objects, and the woman kills herself.
- In Hell he finds her among the newly damned and marries her.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Le Fils du diable (1906).webm)
