The Kiss of Hate
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Genre Drama Cinematography Arthur A. Cadwell Country USA | Director William Nigh Screenplay Fred de Gresac Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent film..(English intertitles) Release date April 3, 1916 Writer Fred De Gresac (scenario) Cast Ethel Barry, Niles Welch, William "Stage" Boyd Similar movies Related William Nigh movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Kiss of Hate is a lost 1916 silent film drama starring Ethel Barrymore and H. Cooper Cliffe.
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The film had exclusive engagements, sometimes playing for only a day.
Plot
The story takes place in Czarist Russia and concerns an anti-Semitic police commissioner, or Prefect, Count Orzoff(Cliffe) and a woman Nadia(Barrymore) who has spurned his amorous attentions . The commissioner seeks revenge against Nadia by killing her father(W. L. Abingdon). Orzoff becomes governor and Nadia plots revenge against him and is aided by a group of Jews who are also scheming against Orzoff. In further plot twists Nadia becomes romantic with Orzoff's son Sergius(Robert Elliott) and in a bit of payback stabs Sergius in retribution for her father's murder. Sergius is only wounded and Nadia thinking she has killed him tries to commit suicide but Commissioner Orzof's guards stop her. For the rescue of his son, Nadia somehow gets Count Orzoff to sign papers admitting to persecuting Russian Jews. Nadia is in Orzoff's mansion completing the deal, when that group of Jews set fire to the house killing Nadia, Orzoff and Sergius.
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