Her Bitter Cup (1916)

Directed by

Cleo Madison

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

50 min

Rated

NR

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman becomes a fierce labor organizer and raises money for the factory workers by drastic means.

somberdeterminedtenseearnestbleakmelodramaticquietly intense

What happens

Her Bitter Cup (alternate title A Heart's Crucible) is a 1916 American silent film directed by Cleo Madison. One of only two feature-length films directed by Madison, she also played the leading role, a fervent labor organizer who uses drastic methods to finance her cause of improving the miserable lot of the workers in a factory. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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