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The Vampires: Dead Man's Escape (1916)

The Vampires: Dead Man's Escape poster
Directed by
Louis Feuillade
Genre
silent film
Country
France
Runtime
37 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is the fifth episode of the French silent serial Les Vampires. A criminal mastermind and his gang plot and execute daring escapes from the law. The story follows the pursuit and capture of these villains by an intrepid journalist.

mysterioustensefast-pacedsilentserpentineshadowyold-fashionedadventurous

What happens

L'evasione del morto (L'Evasion du mort) è un film muto del 1916 diretto da Louis Feuillade. È il quinto episodio del serial I vampiri, uscito nel gennaio 1916. È uno degli undici film interpretati da Jacques Feyder che, proprio nel 1915, iniziò la sua carriera di regista: una carriera che lo vedrà dirigere Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Louis Jouvet, Michèle Morgan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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