The Red Mill

“The Red Mill,” a 1927 silent picture starring Marion Davies, features Davies as Tina, a drudge and servant girl in Holland who falls in love with foreign visitor Dennis, played by Owen Moore.  Tina and Dennis skate together along the lanes of her Dutch village, and then he leaves town while she returns to her life of drudgery.  Willem, the mean and sadistic tavern owner, abuses Tina with threats and a whip, but she keeps her dignity and her keen sense of humor.  She gets solace from her only faithful companion, a mouse named Ignatz who lives in her wooden clog.

Marion Davies stars in “The Red Mill.”

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Davies does a great job performing her wonderful stunts, especially when she skates around the village.  Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, who uses the pseudonym “William Goodrich,” provides lots of funny set pieces that make the most of Davies’ talent and physical beauty.  I especially like when she dons a mud mask, which is pulled off to reveal a perfectly made-up face; she changes in an instant from a drudge to a beautiful princess.

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