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Hypocrites is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lois Weber released in USA on 20 january 1915 with Myrtle Stedman
Hypocrites (1915)
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Add to a movie listHypocrites is a 1915 silent drama film written and directed by Lois Weber (1881-1939).
The film contained several full nude scenes. The film is regarded as anticlerical, and the nudity was justified by its religious context.
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The film follows the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courteney Foote) is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of “Truth,” only to be murdered by a mob when his work turns out to be an image of a naked woman. The contemporary Gabriel is the pastor of a large wealthy urban congregation for whom religion is a matter of appearances, not beliefs. The hypocrisy of the congregation is exposed by a series of vignettes in which the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude Margaret Edwards, reveals their appetites for money, sex and power.Actors
Myrtle Stedman
(The Woman (as Miss Myrtle Stedman))
Courtenay Foote
(Gabriel the Ascetic (as Mr. Courtenay Foote))
Jane Darwell
(Madam (uncredited))
Nigel De Brulier
(Distraut Man in Church (uncredited))
Herbert Standing
(The Abbot (as Mr. Herbert Standing))
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