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Miss Mend, an adventure serial in three parts, Mezhrabpom-Russ production ; directed by Fedor Ozep and Boris Barnet ; assisted by L. Tumanov

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Miss Mend

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Mezhrabpom-Russ production ; directed by Fedor Ozep and Boris Barnet ; assisted by L. Tumanov

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Blackhawk Films collection

an adventure serial in three parts

An action-packed adventure serial in three feature-length episodes, produced in Russia with the goal of rivaling, and possibly even surpassing, the most entertaining American movies of the 1920s. Instead of the avant-garde works of Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov, Russian audiences were enchanted by fast-moving American films starring serial queens like Pearl White, swashbuckling heroes like Douglas Fairbanks, and comedians from the Keystone Cops to Lloyd, Keaton and Chaplin. Based on a 1923 pulp novel allegedly written by an American, "Jim Dollar" (actually the nom-de-plume of a Russian woman, Marietta Shaginian). The film's heroine, Vivian Mend, is an elegant urban professional who earns her own living and raises a child without the help of any man. Includes some pointed comments on labor relations, racism, excessive wealth, gratuitous violence and even rape

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