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S A P H i R E

PRESENTS: THE TOLL GATE (1920)
HIS BITTER PILL (1916)

MOViE iNFORMATiON

[ THEATRE DATE....: 4/15/1920
[ RELEASE DATE....: 11/18/2004
[ STORE DATE......: 4/20/1999
[ GENRE...........: Silent Film/Western
[ RUNTiME.........: 74 Minutes
[ RATiNG..........: 6.9/10
[ NO. SCREENiNGS..: ???

[ ViDEO BiTRATE...: 687 kBit/s XviD at 19fps
[ AUDiO BiTRATE...: 171 kBit/s VBR Stereo MP3 at 48KHZ  ]
[ ASPECT RATiO....: 1.33:1
[ RESOLUTiON......: 576x432
[ ARCHiVES........: 1 sph-toll.gate.rar *50x15*
[ AVi SiZE........: 456 MB * 467,202 KB * 478,414,848 B ]
[ SUBTiTLES.......: English Intertitles, no Subs

M O V i E   S U M M A R Y

William S. Hart added a bit more suspense and drama in this otherwise
typical Hart western. The greatest western star of the mid 1910s, Hart
again played a good-bad man reformed by his love for a righteous woman
and a young child. The villain is the woman's brutish husband who
eventually gets the heave-ho (literally, over a cliff). What makes
this western very unusual for its time (or any time, for that matter)
is the lack of the traditional happy ending. Although pardoned by the
sheriff for killing Singleton, Hart refuses to marry the widow despite
their obvious love for one another because he deems himself unworthy
after killing her husband. Critics have bemoaned such "Hart-isms," but
the decision actually seems quite logical and understandable this time.

Director ............  Lambert Hillyer

William S. Hart .....  Black Deering
Anna Q. Nilsson .....  Mary Brown
Joseph Singleton ....  Tom Jordan
Jack Richardson .....  The Sheriff

M O R E  i N F O R M A T i O N

THE TOLL GATE: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011779/
HIS BITTER PILL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006801/
RETAIL DVD: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6305340668

N O T E S

Also included is a Mack Sennett Keystone Cops type satire on the grim
westerns that William S. Hart used to make. It's called His Bitter Pill,
is about 20 minutes long, fits on the same CD, and is rar'd together
with The Toll Gate.

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