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Film Information:
Year:

1925

The Salvation Hunters
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Director:

Joseph von Sternberg
Color:

B&W
Format:

16 mm
Duration:

65 min

Cast:

  • George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matieson, Nellie Bly Baker

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Josef von Sternberg
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Edward Gheller
  • MONTAJE: Josef von Sternberg
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Josef von Sternberg

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    Synopsis

    Often described as “the first American independent film”, The Salvation Hunters is also the first film by Josef von Stenberg, who until then had been working as an editor and assistant director. With a budget of less than five thousand dollars –mostly from lead actor George K. Arthur–, the future director of The Blue Angel made an austere and obscurely naturalist drama about “humans who crawl near the floor”, as it presented itself in the first of its emphatic intertitles. The Boy, the Girl, and the Kid, all move their hard lives from the port to the city, and then to the countryside, always suffering abuse from sinister characters, always beset by poverty and failure. Stenberg’s visual inventiveness, as well as his strong ambition and the psychological depths he takes his characters to (specially Georgia Hale, who would later be Chaplin´s co-star in The Gold Rush) not only made him a renowned figure within Hollywood, they’re also some of the reasons why The Salvation Hunters can still be regarded today as an absolutely modern film.

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