A lost silent film spectacular hits the Vancouver screen
But Man, Woman, Marriage was such an epic, they boasted it was on nine reels. A story said that Holubar had shot 80 million miles of film making it, and that the movie had cost $400,000, a fortune at the time.
But it wasn’t all peaches and cream. The ad said the audience would “sob with her” as a “woman failing — the slave girl weeping amidst barbaric beauties of Pagan Courts, the helpless bride of medieval days.”Article content“Thousands of players!” said the ad. “Thousands of horses! Wild Animals! New Screen Wonders!”
“Hordes of women ride bare-legged, bare-armed, bare-chested into the Mighty Battle of the Amazons, with a woman as their leader,” it read. Pretty racy, but the movie seems to have been a bit of a dud, commercially speaking. The opening was delayed several times — it was originally slated to premiere in Hollywood in Jan., 1921, but didn’t appear there until June. It opened on the East Coast in the U.S. first and played across Canada before getting to California, the opposite of the normal run.
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