Idle Wives
John Wall meets his new sweetheart and takes her to the movies; his neglected wife Anne follows them there. Molly, disobeying her parents, meets her boyfriend at the same theater. A working man with his wife and children, all obse...
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"It looks like the last two reels of this Lois Weber feature from 1916 are missing. At least, they aren't available on the National Film Preservation Website where they have posted several of the films they recovered from New Zealand a couple of years ago. A pity, because this looks to be a study in social discontent offered in formalist terms. We see people from various walks of life -- accompanied by titles that announce that the character represents a type -- heading to a movie theater in which they see a Lois Weber film entitled "Life's Mirror". Indeed it is, with all t..."
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This film was thought to be lost entirely until the first reel was discovered in the holdings of the New Zealand Film Archive. This is still only a small portion of the film. The rest is still believed to be lost.
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John Wall meets his new sweetheart and takes her to the movies; his neglected wife Anne follows them there. Molly, disobeying her parents, meets her boyfriend at the same theater. A working man with his wife and children, all obse...