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The Bar Sinister

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For those not around in 1917, "bar sinister" referred to illegitimacy. In this case, the person whose heritage in question is Southern belle Hedda Nova, who has been listed in the record books as "part-colored." Hedda must prove that she's 100% white in order to gain acceptance in the community.

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Grace Kingsley Los Angeles Times 01/25/2021
Just to detail Its story would not show it to you at all, because, grippingly human as that story is, it is in its... richness of types, its graphic limning of race prejudice, that it towers over any other picture of its sort ever made. Go to Full Review Variety Staff Variety 01/25/2021
Under this title Edgar Lewis has produced an eight-reel drama of the South In a manner which, aside from the interest of the story, is bound to attract attention. The photography, by Edward C. Earle, shows some marvelously beautiful pictures Go to Full Review Lester A. Walton New York Age 01/25/2021
The Bar Sinister is as welcome as the flowers in May after such vicious photo plays as The Birth of a Nation. Go to Full Review Harriette Underhill New York Tribune 01/25/2021
Nothing more entertaining and altogether artistic has been seen in a long time. Go to Full Review Peter Milne Motion Picture News 01/25/2021
It never tires and the action always maintains the remarkable degree of suspense introduced by the ominous events of the prologue. Go to Full Review George W. Graves Motography 01/25/2021
The picture exposes, in the eloquent language of the screen, the blind folly of race hatred. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
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Edgar Lewis

Director

Mary Doyle

Actor

Mitchell Lewis

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Movie Info

Synopsis For those not around in 1917, "bar sinister" referred to illegitimacy. In this case, the person whose heritage in question is Southern belle Hedda Nova, who has been listed in the record books as "part-colored." Hedda must prove that she's 100% white in order to gain acceptance in the community.
Director
Edgar Lewis
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English