They were kind of proud of it…beginning with: <br/><br/>Albert E. Smith Presents GREATER VITAGRPAH'S Stupendious Melodramatic Photoplay Serial "VENGEANGE –-AND THE WOMAN." (and followed that with:)<br/><br/>"A Stupendous, Spectacular Melodram of an Oath of Hate - Hurled in Hot Blood By an Outlaw Against the Man Who Brought Him to Well-Earned Justice – and the Trail of Fiendish Villainy That Followed In Its Wake." (Then the publicity writer settled down a little and told us what all the shouting was all about): "Here is what you have waited for –- a serial in which every episode will cause the red blood to leap in your veins –- a story crowded with action that is true, that is real, that imperilled lives in the making.<br/><br/>It's staged on the lofty summits and in the sweeping valleys of the majestic Rockies. Torrents that rage and foam run through it. Its characters are men - yes, and women too - who can ride and rope and shoot.<br/><br/>And one great superman - Henry Blake - who thought life precious enough to fight for it, no matter the odds –- who protected his love-mate, Bessie Blake, fearless daughter of the Rockies, with all his wondrous brawn and brain and iron nerve.<br/><br/>VENGEANCE–-AND THE WOMAN has reached the very peak of sensational melodrama. Its perils, its melodramatic heights will make film history–- will spur the jaded mind to quick and tense response. It is DIFFERENT from any serial yet produced.<br/><br/>And in every thrill-laden episode are the greatest, most courageous photoplay serial stars in the world: WILLIAM DUNCAN and CAROL HOLLOWAY.<br/><br/>––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-<br/><br/>Now that is the way to promote a film…a quiet, confident understatement of the facts. Especially when it stars a superman. Or, in the German version…a ubermensch.
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