The Salvation Hunters
- Original title
- The Salvation Hunters
- Year
- 1925
- Running time
- 65 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- George K. Arthur
- Georgia Hale
- Bruce Guerin
- Otto Matieson
- Nellie Bly Baker
- Olaf Hytten
- Stuart Holmes
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- Cinematography
Edward Gheller (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Silent Film. Social Drama. Poverty. Prostitution. Independent Film (US)
- Synopsis
- Often described as "the first American independent film", von Sternberg’s The Salvation Hunters is an austere and obscurely naturalist drama about "humans who crawl near the floor."
It's hard now to appreciate the bomb-shell that Sternberg's first feature must have been in Hollywood at the time: its slow pace, its lyrical pessimism, and its strong emphasis on the psychological over the physical set it far apart from anything that the American cinema had produced. Shot for less than five thousand dollars in the span of three weeks, the film follows "The Boy", "The Girl" and "The Child" as they escape the deplorable living conditions of their riverfront home to the city, only to encounter "The Brute," who is hell-bent on having the girl to himself.- Rankings Position
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