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The Bar Sinister

1917 Drama List
100% Tomatometer 8 Reviews 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. Read More Read Less

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Grace Kingsley Los Angeles Times 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. Jan 25, 2021 Full Review Variety Staff Variety 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 Jan 25, 2021 Full Review Lester A. Walton New York Age The Bar Sinister is as welcome as the flowers in May after such vicious photo plays as The Birth of a Nation. Jan 25, 2021 Full Review Harriette Underhill New York Tribune Nothing more entertaining and altogether artistic has been seen in a long time. Jan 25, 2021 Full Review Peter Milne Motion Picture News It never tires and the action always maintains the remarkable degree of suspense introduced by the ominous events of the prologue. Jan 25, 2021 Full Review George W. Graves Motography The picture exposes, in the eloquent language of the screen, the blind folly of race hatred. Jan 25, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews
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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