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The Oubliette

3.3 29 mins Drama   History   1914
Bison Motion Pictures  
Director(s): Charles Giblyn

Release Date: 14 Fri, Aug 1914

Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. This film and By the Sun's Rays are two of Chaney's earliest surviving films.

Casts of The Oubliette

Murdock MacQuarrie

as François Villon

Pauline Bush

as Philippa de Annonay

Lon Chaney

as Chevalier Bertrand de la Payne

Doc Crane

as King Louis XI

Chester Withey

as Colin

Millard K. Wilson

as Philip de Soisson

Frank Lanning

as Oliver Le Dain

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