The Witch
Cast & Crew
Frank Powell
Nance O'neil
Alfred Hickman
Frank Russell
Macey Harlam
Ada Neville
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
At the death of her father, Dr. Fernandez, a general leading an insurrectionist faction against Mendoza, Mexico's military governor, Zora, who has learned from her father the mastery of hypnosis, is ostracized by her father's victor. He warns that any woman caught associating with her will be put into a dungeon, and any man will be hanged. With the use of herbs, Zora helps the poor, and when Mendoza's daughter Dolores suffers from somnambulism, her nurse secretly sends for Zora, who cures Dolores. Zora falls in love with Lieutenant Riques, an official's son, without knowing that he is engaged to Dolores. When Zora learns this, she puts Dolores into a trance. After a follower betrays Zora and Riques, Zora testifies, to save Riques, that she enticed him by using magical powers. She is about to be burned at the stake, when the nurse informs Mendoza that only Zora can save Dolores. When offered her freedom in return for releasing Dolores from the spell, Zora complies, and is cast out of the village.
Director
Frank Powell
Cast
Nance O'neil
Alfred Hickman
Frank Russell
Macey Harlam
Ada Neville
Jane Miller
Sadie Gross
Stuart Holmes
Harry Kendall
Robert Wayne
Jane Janin
Ada Sherin
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to a pre-production news item, Henry Leone was to be in the film. Sadie Gross was formerly the leading dancer at Niblo's restaurant and, according to a news item, was "the Pavlowa of her day." The original title of this film was The Sorceress. J. Alan Turner, the scenic designer, flew to Mexico to observe a typical village setting and later reconstructed it outside the Fox Studios in New Jersey.
