Her Bitter Cup

A Heart's Crucible

Directed by: Cleo Madison, Joe King, USA, 1916

USA, 1916
Plakatmotiv Her Bitter Cup, © Red Feather Productions


Cast and Credits

Production Red Feather Productions
Distribution Universal Film Manufacturing Company
Producer Cleo Madison
Director Cleo Madison
Joe King
Scenario Cleo Madison
Story Kathleen Kerrigan
Cast Cleo Madison [Rethna]
Adele Farrington [Mary McDougal]
William V. Mong [Henry Burke]
Edward Hearn [Walter Burke]
Ray Hanford [Factory Foreman]
Lule Warrenton [Boardinghouse Woman]
Willis Marks
Margaret Whistler

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,, 5000 feet, 5 reels
Sound System: silent
First Screening: April 17, 1916 in USA

Reviews in German: "(... ein Portrait der Rethna), einem Mädchen, das in einem Elendsviertel aufgewachsen ist. Rethna sorgt dort für die Kranken und begeht für sie sogar Diebstahl. Später verliebt sich der ältere Sohn eine Fabrikbesitzers in das Mädchen und holt sie zu sich in seine neue eingerichtete Wohnung. Die Darstellung der Gegensätze ihrer unterschiedlichen Lebensweise ist gelungen, aber die entsprechende Beziehung des Mädchens zu Harry Burke bleibt im unklaren. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt nämlich schleichen sich eine Reihe verschiedenster Motive und etliche Unklarheiten in die Geschichte ein. Die Kreuzigung des Körpers von Rethna am Ende des Films ist abstossend. Die gesamte Aussage des Films ist in mancher Hinsicht sehr beeindruckend, aber gewissen Szenen scheint die entsprechende Bedeutung zu fehlen, sie bleiben zusammenhanglos stehen." (Motion Picture World, April 22, 1916, zitiert nach Anthony Slide, Engel vom Broadway, Münster 1982)

"(...) Cleo Madison directs Her Bitter Cup, about a woman who marries an exploitive factory owner's son in order to divert his ill-gotten gains back to the labor force (...)" (Shelley Stamp, Movies and the Ambiguities of Progressivism, American Cinema of the 1910s, New Brunswick 2009)

General Information

Her Bitter Cup is a motion picture produced in the year 1916 as a USA production. The Film was directed by Cleo Madison, Joe King, with Cleo Madison, Adele Farrington, William V. Mong, Edward Hearn, Ray Hanford, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file;

Bibliography Motion Picture World, April 22, 1916

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