Fires of Rebellion

Fires of Rebellion
Directed by	Ida May Park
Written by	Ida May Park
Starring	Lon Chaney; Dorothy Phillips
Cinematography	King D. Gray
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	July 2, 1917;
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Fires of Rebellion is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Ida May Park and starring Lon Chaney.[1] It is not known whether the film currently survives.[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[2] Madge Garvey (Phillips) and her father are employed in a shoe factory. Madge's brother-in-law is discharged by the new foreman, John Blake (Stowell), and in a fight with Blake is killed. Blake falls in love with Madge and she consents to marry him. The day before the wedding she goes to New York City, lured by a girl friend and a desire to get away from Sackville and its squalor. There she finds life very different. She poses for an artist, and is invited to his apartment late one night where he tries to force his attentions on her. In the meantime, Blake assists Madge's sister through her illness, and the family moves into the house Blake had furnished for his bride. Seeing a picture of a scantily clad Madge in the newspaper, Blake goes to the city where he finds Madge fainted and lying in the arms of the artist. He rescues her and they return home and are married.

Cast

Dorothy Phillips as Madge Garvey
William Stowell as John Blake
Lon Chaney as Russell Hanlon
Belle Bennett as Helen Mallory
Golda Madden as Cora Hayes
Alice May Youse as Mrs. Garvey
Ed Brady as Dan Mallory
Dick La Reno as Joe Garvey (as Richard La Reno)

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Fires of Rebellion was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors required two cuts in the film, the first removing an intertitle in reel 1 reading "Never mind, my fine lady, you won't be so fresh this time tomorrow night," and the second in reel 5 removing a closeup of a choking scene.[3]

gollark: This cannot possibly go wrong.

gollark: > This may be because synthesized faces tend to look more like average faces which themselves are deemed more trustworthy They *do* suggest your explanation in the paper, actually.

gollark: Apparently this is mostly due to them explaining the artifacts which are common in synthetic ones, but newer methods don't really have those as much anyway.

gollark: Experiment 2 is after they take some new people and train them on how to detect synthetic ones.

gollark: so that doesn't seem right.

References

"Progressive Silent Film List: Fires of Rebellion". silentera.com. Retrieved June 26, 2008.
"Reviews: Dorothy Phillips in Fires of Rebellion". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 5 (1): 25. June 30, 1917. Retrieved November 6, 2014.
"Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 5 (2): 33. July 7, 1917. Retrieved November 7, 2014.

External links

Fires of Rebellion on IMDb

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[silentera-1] "Progressive Silent Film List: Fires of Rebellion". silentera.com. Retrieved June 26, 2008.

[2] "Reviews: Dorothy Phillips in Fires of Rebellion". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 5 (1): 25. June 30, 1917. Retrieved November 6, 2014.

[3] "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 5 (2): 33. July 7, 1917. Retrieved November 7, 2014.