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The House of Hate is a 1918 American film serial directed by George B. Seitz, produced when many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey.[1][2][3]

The House of Hate
Advert for the film serial with Pearl White
Directed byGeorge B. Seitz
Screenplay byBertram Millhauser
Story byArthur B. Reeve
Charles Logue
StarringPearl White
Antonio Moreno
CinematographyArthur Charles Miller
Harry Hardy
Production
company
Astra Film Corporation
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • March 10, 1918 (1918-03-10)
Running time
20 episodes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The serial was originally announced at fifteen episodes but due to its box office success was extended to twenty, at which time content involving German spies was interpolated into the murder mystery plot.

A print of a condensed featurized version of The House of Hate from the collection of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein is held in the Gosfilmofond film archive in Russia. Most of the propagandistic spy content is excised in the condensation, which does not include chapter divisions but does apparently include most of the content of episodes 1-4 as originally released, highlights from the middle chapters of the serial, and the complete finale including the extended flashback in which the masked villain's identity is revealed. On April 12, 2015 the Fort Lee Film Commission held a screening of a video transfer of existing footage from this film lasting three hours, including shots of Pearl White atop Cliffhanger Point on the Hudson Palisades.[4]

A restored version of the serial with reconstructed opening titles, dialogue, chapter summaries, and chapter divisions was released on DVD by The Serial Squadron on May 25, 2015.[5]

Lobby card
Lobby card

Plot


The hooded villain
The hooded villain

Shortly after Winthrop Waldron, munitions magnate and head of the house of Waldon, arranges for the betrothal of his only heir, his adopted daughter Pearl, to her cousin so that control of his munitions empire will remain in the family, he is mysteriously murdered by a black-cowled killer who has sworn an oath of hate against him and Pearl. With Waldron's death, Pearl becomes owner of America's largest munitions factory - the Waldon War Works. Harry Gresham, a young scientist/engineer, is in love with Pearl, and after the betrothal she finds that she regards him more highly than she does her cousin. Another cousin, Naomi, is in love with Gresham and does her best to block his efforts to win Pearl.

With Gresham's help, Pearl must fend off repeated, wildly violent and merciless attacks on her life by the masked man throughout the serial. All the living Waldon relatives, including another brother, Ezra, seem to be scheming at one time or another to deprive Pearl of her inheritance, but which, if any of the three, is really the masked maniac who threatens her life? Pearl and Harry receive and investigate mysterious messages from someone who purports to know the identity of the killer, and eventually team up and attempt to infiltrate the underworld, using false identities and enduring (literal) cliff-hanging ordeals in order to try and unmask and defeat the Hooded Terror and his gang of crooks.


Cast



Censorship


Like many American films of the time, The House of Hate was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards.

For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut the following:


Chapter titles


Pearl White, Antonio Moreno, director George B. Seitz, and cinematographer Arthur Charles Miller at Cliffhanger Point on the Hudson Palisades
Pearl White, Antonio Moreno, director George B. Seitz, and cinematographer Arthur Charles Miller at Cliffhanger Point on the Hudson Palisades
  1. The Hooded Terror
  2. The Tiger's Eye
  3. A Woman's Perfidy
  4. The Man from Java
  5. Spies Within
  6. A Living Target
  7. Germ Menace
  8. The Untold Secret
  9. Poisoned Darts
  10. Double Crossed
  11. Haunts of Evil
  12. Flashes in the Dark
  13. Enemy Aliens
  14. Underworld Allies
  15. The False Signal
  16. The Vial of Death
  17. The Death Switch
  18. At the Pistol's Point
  19. The Hooded Terror Unmasked
  20. Following Old Glory

See also



References


  1. Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
  2. "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  3. Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
  4. Muriana Press, A Lost Serial Found (And Screened): Pearl White’s The House of Hate, accessed April 15, 2015
  5. The House of Hate DVD featuring Pearl White
  6. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 6 (14): 29. March 30, 1918. (cuts in Chapters 1 and 2)
  7. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (16): 31. April 13, 1918. (cut in Chapter 3)
  8. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (20): 31. May 11, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 7)
  9. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (21): 31. May 18, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 8)
  10. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (22): 30. May 25, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 9)
  11. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (23): 31. June 1, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 10)
  12. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 6 (24): 31. June 8, 1918. (cut in Chapter 11)
  13. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (1): 47. June 29, 1918. (cuts in Chapters 12 and 14)
  14. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (2): 31. July 6, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 15)
  15. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (4): 49. July 20, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 16)
  16. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (5): 43. July 27, 1918. (cut in Chapter 18)
  17. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (9): 36. August 24, 1918. (cuts in Chapter 19)





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