Theda Bara's first starring role (and one of the only surviving examples of      her work) tells the story of a good man brought down by an irresistible femme    fatale. Bara, perhaps the screen's first true sex symbol, is "The Vampire,"      who seduces and abandons a series of influential men before her latest         conquest. Based on the play by Porter Emerson Browne, inspired Rudyard         Kipling's poem, The Vampire. "It's a story as old as theater and one     that never seems to lose its appeal. The fact that Fox did not pin a happy       ending onto A Fool There Was drew critical acclaim at the time, and it   still packs a wallop today" (Eve Golden, The Silents Majority). Silent   Frank Powell---USA---1915---67 mins.