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Giftslangen
Also known as The Serpent’s Fang in the USA
(1913) Denmark
B&W : [?] Two or Three? reels
Directed by Hjalmar Davidsen
Cast: Lauritz Olsen [Manzoni], Carlo Wieth [Pjerrot], Ella Sprange [Lula, the snake charmer], Agnes Andersen, Ingeborg Bruhn Bertelsen, Oluf Billesborg, Axel Boesen, Vera Esbøll, Aage Henvig, Alma Hinding, Frederik Jacobsen, Ingeborg Jensen, Christian Lange, Ebba Lorentzen, Emilie Otterdahl, Paula Ruff, Franz Skondrup, Holger Syndergaard, Birger von Cotta-Schønberg, Charles Willumsen
Nordisk Films Kompagni production; distributed by Nordisk Films Kompagni. / Scenario by Laurids Skands. Cinematography by Marius Clausen. / Released 18 August 1913. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in the USA by Great Northern Film Company [?] through Exclusive Supply Corporation? in October 1913.
Drama.
Reviews: [The Moving Picture World, 20 September 1913, page ?] This two-reel picture is stronger in sensationalism than in heart interest. It is a story of revenge and culminates in a double tragedy. A married woman, a snake dancer in a circus, spurns the advances of a performer. The latter substitutes for the harmless snake used by the woman out of a deadly variety, causing her death. Years later the husband locates the murderer in another land. In a spectacular manner the death of the first results from the bite of a snake the husband has loosed on the top of a diving platform, and then the husband goes to his death, striking on the body of the first to fall. Mention should be made of the extreme decollete of the snake dancer. It may be all right for continental houses. It will be regarded here as exposure.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: (unknown) [Denmark]; Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 24 November 2022.
References: Tarbox-Lost p. 148 : Website-IMDb.
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