Today, we end the film specials series with Spanish chocolate cards with a post on the silent French film, Blessée au coeur/Wounded in the heart (1917), starring Jeanne Delvair, Jean Ayme and René Rocher. The film was produced by Pathé Frères, but the director is unknown. The series of 6 cards was produced by Ed. Auber y Pla for Chocolate Pi in Barcelona. The Spanish release title of the film was Herida del corazon and the distributor of the film in Spain was Vilaseca y Ledesma.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 1 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Publicity still for Blessée au coeur (1917). The actress is not Jeanne Delvair, but an unknown actress who plays the lady the banker wants to elope with.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 2 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Jeanne Delvair and René Rocher in Blessée au coeur (1917).
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 3 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Jeanne Delvair and Jean Ayme in Blessée au coeur (1917).
In Blessée au coeur (1917), the banker Beaupreault (Jean Ayme) has done wild speculations to satisfy his extraordinary needs. One night, while waiting for his wife Marguerite (Jeanne Delvair), he feels the imminent disaster coming. Their son Gérard (René Rocher), unknowing of the debacle, celebrates the passing of his exams.
The opulent rich Robert Dalmarre (Georges Tréville) is prepared to save Marguerite from catastrophe. Beaupreault, who already has prepared his flight with the ex-wife of his attorney Collinet (Jacques Volnys), then hears of the offer his friend is willing to make to save his honour.
Meanwhile, because of alarming rumours around the bank, the creditor Haudecoeur (Jean Chameroy) surprises the banker preparing his luggage, and with a gun in his hand, he demands the restitution of his loans. The banker yields, but this delay is fatal, as Marguerite comes to tell him about her son's success. She quickly understands her husband's plans, and in vain pleas him to renounce to them, but the banker brutally throws her on the ground.
Marguerite finds the gun of Haudecoeur and points it at the banker. Then the banker quickly switches off the electricity to flee. A shot goes off in the dark...
The previous scene lasts briefly, surprising Haudecoeur, who is still on the stairs. The bank staff is surprised to find him in the banker's apartments as he entered without their knowledge, so they suspect him of the killing.
The drama has shocked Marguerite, but when her wits return she learns that the murderer has fallen in the hands of Justice. Marguerite has no doubt she herself has fired the gun on her husband. She is about to declare this before the judge, but her maternal egoism prevents this. The timely arrival of Robert Dalmarre clears her sad thoughts when the latter explains the true murderer was Collinet, who used the darkness created by the banker to kill him to prevent his flight with his own ex-wife.
Collinet is convicted and confesses his crime. Haudecoeur is freed and Marguerite liberated from the doubts that tormented her mind, will forget, with her two loved ones [her son and Robert], the intense drama which was about to steal her reason.
Blessée au coeur was a production by the Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (SCAGL), part of Pathé Frères. Pathé also distributed the film. The film was based on a novel (1895) by Jules Mary. According to the newspapers of 1917 on Gallica, the film was released almost simultaneously at the Parisian cinemas Pathé-Palace, Omnia-Pathé and Artistic around 20 April 1917.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 4 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Georges Tréville in Blessée au coeur (1917). The actress does not look like Delvair, so she could be the unknown actress who plays the lady with whom the banker planned to flee (see card 1).
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 5 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Georges Tréville in Blessée au coeur (1917). The actor on the right may be Jacques Volnys.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 6 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Georges Tréville, René Rocher and Jeanne Delvair in Blessée au coeur (1917).
Sources: Wikipedia (French), IMDb, Ciné-Ressources, Fondation Seydoux-Pathé, Gallica, and the collectors cards.
N.B. The French databases only mention Georges Tréville's collaboration but from these cards, it is clear he played Robert Dalmarre.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 1 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Publicity still for Blessée au coeur (1917). The actress is not Jeanne Delvair, but an unknown actress who plays the lady the banker wants to elope with.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 2 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Jeanne Delvair and René Rocher in Blessée au coeur (1917).
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 3 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Jeanne Delvair and Jean Ayme in Blessée au coeur (1917).
A Shot in the Dark
In Blessée au coeur (1917), the banker Beaupreault (Jean Ayme) has done wild speculations to satisfy his extraordinary needs. One night, while waiting for his wife Marguerite (Jeanne Delvair), he feels the imminent disaster coming. Their son Gérard (René Rocher), unknowing of the debacle, celebrates the passing of his exams.
The opulent rich Robert Dalmarre (Georges Tréville) is prepared to save Marguerite from catastrophe. Beaupreault, who already has prepared his flight with the ex-wife of his attorney Collinet (Jacques Volnys), then hears of the offer his friend is willing to make to save his honour.
Meanwhile, because of alarming rumours around the bank, the creditor Haudecoeur (Jean Chameroy) surprises the banker preparing his luggage, and with a gun in his hand, he demands the restitution of his loans. The banker yields, but this delay is fatal, as Marguerite comes to tell him about her son's success. She quickly understands her husband's plans, and in vain pleas him to renounce to them, but the banker brutally throws her on the ground.
Marguerite finds the gun of Haudecoeur and points it at the banker. Then the banker quickly switches off the electricity to flee. A shot goes off in the dark...
The previous scene lasts briefly, surprising Haudecoeur, who is still on the stairs. The bank staff is surprised to find him in the banker's apartments as he entered without their knowledge, so they suspect him of the killing.
The drama has shocked Marguerite, but when her wits return she learns that the murderer has fallen in the hands of Justice. Marguerite has no doubt she herself has fired the gun on her husband. She is about to declare this before the judge, but her maternal egoism prevents this. The timely arrival of Robert Dalmarre clears her sad thoughts when the latter explains the true murderer was Collinet, who used the darkness created by the banker to kill him to prevent his flight with his own ex-wife.
Collinet is convicted and confesses his crime. Haudecoeur is freed and Marguerite liberated from the doubts that tormented her mind, will forget, with her two loved ones [her son and Robert], the intense drama which was about to steal her reason.
Blessée au coeur was a production by the Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (SCAGL), part of Pathé Frères. Pathé also distributed the film. The film was based on a novel (1895) by Jules Mary. According to the newspapers of 1917 on Gallica, the film was released almost simultaneously at the Parisian cinemas Pathé-Palace, Omnia-Pathé and Artistic around 20 April 1917.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 4 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Georges Tréville in Blessée au coeur (1917). The actress does not look like Delvair, so she could be the unknown actress who plays the lady with whom the banker planned to flee (see card 1).
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 5 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Georges Tréville in Blessée au coeur (1917). The actor on the right may be Jacques Volnys.
Spanish postcard by Ed. Auber y Pla, Barcelona for Chocolate Pi, Barcelona, no. 6 of 6 cards. Photo: Pathé Frères. Georges Tréville, René Rocher and Jeanne Delvair in Blessée au coeur (1917).
Sources: Wikipedia (French), IMDb, Ciné-Ressources, Fondation Seydoux-Pathé, Gallica, and the collectors cards.
N.B. The French databases only mention Georges Tréville's collaboration but from these cards, it is clear he played Robert Dalmarre.
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