Votes for Women
"The feature that has the support of every suffrage organization in the country."
Overview
Named by historian Kevin Brownlow as “the first important suffrage film”, this melodrama follows suffragist May Fillmore in her fight to sway Senator Herman, whose vote could pass a key reform bill. After exposing him and his fiancée Jane Wadsworth to the dire living conditions of a motherless tenement family—unsanitary housing, child labor, and workplace exploitation—Jane turns against her negligent fiancé and joins the suffrage cause. Ultimately, both Herman and Jane’s father are persuaded to support reform, and the film ends with the characters proudly taking part in a suffrage parade. (Note: This silent narrative film is distinct from Edison’s Votes for Women (1913), a Kinetophone short that recorded real suffragist leaders delivering speeches.)
About Votes for Women (1912)
Votes for Women (1912) is a feature movie produced by Reliance Film Company in United States of America. It was directed by Hal Reid and written by Harriet Laidlaw and Mary Ware Dennett. On screen you will see Edgena De Lespine, Gertrude Robinson, Sue Balfour, Pearl Egan and Gladys Egan. With a runtime of 20m, the film averages 8.0/10 across 1 TMDB ratings.
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