A New Death Penalty (1907)
- Original title
- La Nouvelle peine de mort
- Directed by
- Georges Méliès
- Genre
- silent film
- Country
- France
- Rating
- 8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man steals from and murders a shoe dealer. He is sentenced to die by breathing the fumes of his own shoes.
silentstagedabsurdshortwhimsicalmacabretheatrical
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