Movie
The Butterfly
1915 · 50 min
A grim silent-era melodrama of thwarted love and obsessive vengeance, unfolding with theatrical gravity toward a fatal, mad descent.
- Directed by
- O.A.C. Lund
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Howard Estabrook, Barbara Tennant, O.A.C. Lund
- Overview
- A hunchback, sworn to revenge against a woman who rejected him, lures her stepdaughter Elaine to the stage and assists her to become a dancer. Her stepmother goes to see her dance where the hunchback murders her goes mad and falls off a cliff to his death. John Butler, who is loved by Elaine, is accused of killing him, but Elaine clears him of the charge by proving the hunchback was the murderer of her stepmother.
- How it feels
- Dark, melancholic and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Revenge, obsession, betrayal, madness
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- O.A.C. Lund
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Howard Estabrook, Barbara Tennant, O.A.C. Lund
