The Villain Still Pursued Her(1940)
Good to the Last Drop...of the Villain...the Girl...or Maybe the Scenery!
Victorian melodrama is sent up in this spoof of the old production "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." Dastardly villain Silas Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the virtuous heroine by driving her naïve husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is Buster Keaton as William Dalton, the drunkard's friend.
Movie: The Villain Still Pursued Her
Top 10 Billed Cast
Frederick Healy
Mary Wilson
Silas Cribbs
William Dalton
Hazel Dalton
Edward Middleton
Master of Ceremonies
Mrs. Wilson
Pie Vendor
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