A Man of Sorrow (1916)
Drama | 24 April 1916
The 11 Mar 1916 Motography announced the upcoming production, based on the 1885 melodrama, Hoodman Blind by Henry Arthur Jones and Wilson Barrett. Lead actress Dorothy Bernard was cast in a dual role as sisters. The 1 Apr 1916 Motography printed conflicting release dates of 20 Mar 1916 and 24 Apr 1916. An article in the 4 Mar 1916 Motion Picture News implied that the film had already been completed at Fox Studios in the Edendale district of Los Angeles, CA.
Two weeks later, however, the 18 Mar 1930 Motion Picture News revealed that the company had recently been on location in Rio Vista, CA, where Dorothy Bernard enacted the suicide of one of her characters by leaping into the Sacramento River. It was also noted that director Oscar Apfel commissioned a monument to be constructed in the village plaza for one scene. After the townspeople had reportedly grown accustomed to the structure, it was presented as a gift by Fox Film Corp. The 8 Apr 1916 Motography stated that the majority of Rio Vista residents appeared in a “mob scene,” and the 29 Apr 1916 edition included a dog named “Peggy” among the cast.
A Man of Sorrow opened 24 Apr 1916 to mixed critical notices. While the 13 May 1916 Motion Picture News gave the film a positive review, the Jul 1916 Photoplay claimed the production made “a joke of its authors,” and was as unsuited to its stars as “pajamas at a formal dinner.” ...
The 11 Mar 1916 Motography announced the upcoming production, based on the 1885 melodrama, Hoodman Blind by Henry Arthur Jones and Wilson Barrett. Lead actress Dorothy Bernard was cast in a dual role as sisters. The 1 Apr 1916 Motography printed conflicting release dates of 20 Mar 1916 and 24 Apr 1916. An article in the 4 Mar 1916 Motion Picture News implied that the film had already been completed at Fox Studios in the Edendale district of Los Angeles, CA.
Two weeks later, however, the 18 Mar 1930 Motion Picture News revealed that the company had recently been on location in Rio Vista, CA, where Dorothy Bernard enacted the suicide of one of her characters by leaping into the Sacramento River. It was also noted that director Oscar Apfel commissioned a monument to be constructed in the village plaza for one scene. After the townspeople had reportedly grown accustomed to the structure, it was presented as a gift by Fox Film Corp. The 8 Apr 1916 Motography stated that the majority of Rio Vista residents appeared in a “mob scene,” and the 29 Apr 1916 edition included a dog named “Peggy” among the cast.
A Man of Sorrow opened 24 Apr 1916 to mixed critical notices. While the 13 May 1916 Motion Picture News gave the film a positive review, the Jul 1916 Photoplay claimed the production made “a joke of its authors,” and was as unsuited to its stars as “pajamas at a formal dinner.”
The film was copyrighted at six reels, but all trade journals list it at five.
Pilot Film Co. produced the first version of Hoodman Blind, with original stage actor Wilson Barrett in the lead role, in 1913 (see entry). Fox Film remade the story again in 1923 under its original title (see entry).
When a husband sees his wife with another man, he abandons her and soon decides to drown himself. At the pier, he watches a woman attempt suicide by jumping into the ocean, and then he dives in to save her. She looks exactly like his wife, and before she dies, she recognizes him, and tells him that she is his wife's gypsy half sister, about whom the wife had never known. A man who loved the wife had hired the gypsy to impersonate her and flirt with a stranger, and so convince the husband of her unfaithfulness. The husband then seeks out the man and beats him, and, because he is wanted for a murder, turns him over to the police. Afterward, the husband's wife warmly welcomes him back when he explains his mistake and apologizes for ...
When a husband sees his wife with another man, he abandons her and soon decides to drown himself. At the pier, he watches a woman attempt suicide by jumping into the ocean, and then he dives in to save her. She looks exactly like his wife, and before she dies, she recognizes him, and tells him that she is his wife's gypsy half sister, about whom the wife had never known. A man who loved the wife had hired the gypsy to impersonate her and flirt with a stranger, and so convince the husband of her unfaithfulness. The husband then seeks out the man and beats him, and, because he is wanted for a murder, turns him over to the police. Afterward, the husband's wife warmly welcomes him back when he explains his mistake and apologizes for it.
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