The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)
1h 6m
Running Time
October 11, 1940Release Date
The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)
1h 6m
Running Time
October 11, 1940Release Date
Plot.
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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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Hugh Herbert
Frederick Healy
Anita Louise
Mary Wilson
Alan Mowbray
Silas Cribbs
Buster Keaton
William Dalton
Joyce Compton
Hazel Dalton
Richard Cromwell
Edward Middleton
Billy Gilbert
Master of Ceremonies
Margaret Hamilton
Mrs. Wilson
Diane Fisher
Julia Middleton
Charles Judels
M. Dubois - Pie Vendor
Jack Norton
Drunk
Edward F. Cline
Director
Vernon Dent
Jim, a policeman
Elbert Franklin
Writer
Eddie Acuff
Joe (uncredited)
Ethel La Blanche
Writer
Ernie Alexander
Drunk (uncredited)
Harold B. Franklin
Producer
Bobby Barber
Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Lucien Ballard
Cinematographer
Eddie Dunn
Stevens - the Coach Driver (uncredited)
Arthur Hilton
Editor
Edward Gargan
Bartender (uncredited)
Arthur Housman
Mr. McGillicuddy - Drunk (uncredited)
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Details.
Wiki.
The Villain Still Pursued Her is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Edward F. Cline and starring Billy Gilbert and Buster Keaton. It is a parody of old stage melodramas but is based primarily on The Drunkard, a 19th-century prohibitionist play by William H. Smith that had also been lampooned in other productions, most notably in the 1934 W. C. Fields comedy The Old Fashioned Way.
The overall format of the film is that of a stage play, with much dialogue spoken directly to the camera.
Buster Keaton is notable in a speaking but minor supporting role as Dalton, a family friend.