• Warning: Spoilers
    . . . WILD ORANGES' flyleaf probably would include a family tree to help readers figure out who begat who. However, since WILD ORANGES is a flick--and a silent one, at that (with the paucity of exposition film consumers have come to expect from this mute genre)--many if not most viewers are forced to turn to "user reviews" to figure out the perverse genealogy of WILD ORANGES. Being a Southern Gothic Story, it's clear to regular devotees of this niche that "Iscah" is "Millie's" biological dad. The fact that a title card says this swamp creature is only 30, and 18-year-old Millie looks like she's going on 40 should not conflict with the facts of this case. (Millie exemplifies a typical "Southern Belle," and once a cypress swamp thing turns 12 he senses that NOW is the time to pass along his genes.) These sour facts of life leave Millie's grand-pappy the odd man out, because he'd be the usual suspect for the role of her progenitor (especially since he's a dead ringer for the Rebel Traitor "B. Dern" plays in THE HATEFUL EIGHT). There's also the possibility that some of the Fair Sex will cringe when Daddy Iscah proposes to make it a belated mother-daughter hook-up by coercing Millie into a Dating Game. This example of Confederate Values so enraged the censors of its day that they allowed the film makers to end this sordid tale by having a Hell Hound chow down on Iscah BEFORE he's apparently able to consummate his crush on Millie (though who knows what he did after tying her to the bed posts).