The Threads of Fate (1915)

Directed by

Joe De Grasse

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In this silent drama, a count tries to force a woman to marry him against her will. The story is presented with quotes from famous poets, and the action is framed by mythological Fates weaving the threads of human lives.

melodramaticclassicalstylizedsepia-tonedpoeticslowfatalisticromantic

What happens

The Threads of Fate (aka Threads of Fate) is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Joe De Grasse, written by Tom Forman, and featuring Pauline Bush, William C. Dowlan and Lon Chaney. The film is now considered to be a lost film. A still exists showing Lon Chaney made up as "The Count" trying to persuade the heroine of the film to marry him. The film's subtitles were all extractions from the literary works of famous authors, such as Tennyson, Milton and Pope. The film is framed by both a beginning and an ending sequence showing the three Fates weaving the threads of Mankind, these sequences being hand-colored (the rest of the film was in black-and-white). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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