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The Villain Still Pursued Her

5.1 66 mins Comedy   Romance   1940
RKO Radio Pictures   Franklin-Blank Productions  
Director(s): Edward F. Cline

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.

Casts of The Villain Still Pursued Her

Hugh Herbert

as Frederick Healy

Anita Louise

as Mary Wilson

Alan Mowbray

as Silas Cribbs

Buster Keaton

as William Dalton

Joyce Compton

as Hazel Dalton

Richard Cromwell

as Edward Middleton

Billy Gilbert

as Master of Ceremonies

Margaret Hamilton

as Mrs. Wilson

Diane Fisher

as Julia Middleton

Charles Judels

as Pie Vendor

Jack Norton

as Drunk

Vernon Dent

as Jim, a policeman

Eddie Acuff

as Joe (uncredited)

Ernie Alexander

as Drunk (uncredited)

Bobby Barber

as Wedding Guest (uncredited)

Eddie Dunn

as Stevens - the Coach Driver (uncredited)

Edward Gargan

as Bartender (uncredited)

Arthur Housman

as Mr. McGillicuddy - Drunk (uncredited)

Lew Kelly

as Townsman Sam (uncredited)

Robert McKenzie

as Town Constable (uncredited)

Carlotta Monti

as Streetwalker (uncredited)

Charles Murphy

as Lamplighter (uncredited)

Victor Potel

as Policeman (uncredited)

Walter Tetley

as Telegram Boy (uncredited)

Franklin Pangborn

as Bartender (uncredited)

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