The Black Panthers Cub
6 /10 1 Votes
Director Emile Chautard Country United States | 6/10 IMDb Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language Silent (English intertitles) Release date May 15, 1921
July 16, 1926 Writer Philip Bartholomae (adaptation), Ethel Donoher (story), Algernon Charles Swinburne (poem) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Black Panther's Cub is a 1921 American silent film melodrama produced by William K. Ziegfeld, Florence Ziegfeld's younger brother. It stars stage actress Florence Reed in her last silent screen portrayal where she plays multiple roles. It is a lost film.
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Plot
As summarized in a film publication, when the law closes the Black Panther's (Reed) house, she gives her daughter into the keeping of her old friend Clive (Stephenson). Clive dies and the Cub (Reed), now a young lady, learns who her mother was. Lord Maudsley (Foxe), Clive's son, is in financial difficulty. He makes the Cub believe that dead benefactor has left large debts, and persuades her to reopen her mother's establishment to obtain the money. She does, and the former admirers of the Black Panther marvel at the way she has retained her youth. Eventually the Cub meets her mother (Reed), now an old woman, in a dive to which the Cub has fled with an admirer to get away from the man she loved, but feared to face in her new existence. The place is raided and the mother is shot. Later Maudsley admits that it was he who needed the money, and the lover forgives the Cub and they are happy together.
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Reception
One review found the film to be good but complained of a scene where Reed's character was attacked and her bodice was entirely ripped off, saying, what was the use of showing this rather than implying it when the film censors would just cut it?
References
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