The Villain Still Pursued Her
The Villain Still Pursued Her

The Villain Still Pursued Her

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1940
1h 6m
5.2(13 votes)
Comedy
Romance

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Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.

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