Sunday Silent: Blot

Silent.

Palace Sunday Silents
In partnership with Wall of Sea and POW! Festival

Our Silent Sunday show returns for 2019. One Sunday each month the Palace Cinema and Wall of Sea present a silent classic with Lillian Henley's wonderful live accompaniment on piano.
South West Silents and the Palace Cinema are proud to present this special screening of Weber's silent film masterpiece The Blot (1919).
Professor Griggs and his family live in genteel poverty in a small college town; their lovely daughter Amelia works as a librarian to help out, where she attracts the attentions not only of the son of a college trustee (and her father's most feckless student) but also a gentle and penniless minister. Things start to get complicated when Amelia falls ill from overwork and her very proper mother is tempted to steal a chicken from her neighbours, the large and jolly immigrant Olsen family who live comfortably thanks to their thriving business. The ensuing commotion could take them either way…
One of the great writer-directors of early Hollywood, and the most renowned female director of her era, Lois Weber (1879 – 1939) was, at one time, the highest-paid director in Hollywood. During a career that lasted over 25 years, Weber started her own production company and directed over 40 features and hundreds of short films.