The Hypocrites

NR 1915 | 64 mins | Drama
HYPOCRITES is an amazingly complex film in both narrative and technique, following the parallel stories of an early Christian ascetic and a modern minister, with most actors in dual roles. Gabriel (Courteney Foote) is a medieval monk who devotes himself to completing a statue of “Truth,” only to be murdered by a mob when his work turns out to be an image of a naked woman. The contemporary Gabriel is the pastor of a large urban congregation for whom religion is a matter of appearances, not beliefs. The hypocrisy of the congregation is exposed by a series of vignettes in which the Naked Truth, literally portrayed by a nude woman, reveals their appetites for money, sex and power.

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Cast


Courtenay Foote
Gabriel, the Ascetic
Elisabeth Risdon
 
Charles Rock
 
Myrtle Stedman
The Woman
Margaret Edwards
The Naked Truth
Cyril Raymond
 
Herbert Standing
The Abbot
Douglas Munro
 
Adele Farrington
The Queen
Dixie Carr
The Magdelan
Jane Darwell
Madam

Crew


Lois Weber
Director
Lois Weber
Writer