The House of Mystery (La maison du mystère)

OUT OF PRINT 3-DISC DVD EDITION Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection are proud to present The House of Mystery (La maison du mystère) for the first time on DVD in this 3-disc DVD Edition. The 10-episode Films Albatros serial is a six-and-a-half-hour epic of stylish elegance and narrative imagination, with optional English subtitles by Lenny Borger and a brand-new score by composer Neil Brand. Serial films, or ciné romans were well-established in France before World War I, where they are most closely identified with writer-director Louis Feuillade. These melodramas for adult audiences were unlike American serials that were targeted primarily at youngsters. At Albatros, Russian émigré producer Joseph Ermolieff produced three serials in 1921, all adapted from roman-feuilletons by the phenomenally successful Jules Mary, a specialist in the genre, who penned many a famous melodrama around the theme of the miscarriage of justice - a theme that must have had special appeal for th