A Dark Lantern | |
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Directed by | John S. Robertson |
Written by | Burns Mantle (scenario) |
Based on | A Dark Lantern by Elizabeth Robins |
Produced by | Realart Pictures |
Starring | Alice Brady James L. Crane |
Cinematography | Roy Overbaugh |
Distributed by | Realart Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels (5,956 feet) |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
A Dark Lantern is a lost [1] 1920 American silent drama film produced and released by Realart Pictures. It is based on a 1905 novel of the same name by Elizabeth Robins. [2]
John S. Robertson directed and Alice Brady and her then husband James Crane star. [3] [4] [5]
According to the AFI Catalog, the film was shot at the Essanay studios in Chicago as that was where Alice Brady was appearing in a play at the time.
As described in a film magazine, [6] mistaking the intentions of Prince Anton (Denny) of Argovinia in seeking her hand, young English woman Katherine Dereham (Brady) suffers a great shock when his attentions culminate in a proposal that she be his morganatic wife, his country requiring an alliance with a royal princess. This, together with the blow of her father's death, shatters Katherine's nerves and causes a breakdown. She recovers under the rigid administrations of Dr. Garth Vincent (Crane). Her attitude of antagonistic exaggeration of his sternness that conceives it as sheer brutality makes her submission to the deep love he bears her a sorrowful task. His patience at last breaks her embittered spirit and sends her to his home, willing to accept his protection under compromising circumstances. The realness of his affection is at last revealed to her and Prince Anton, whose love for Katherine has made him risk his throne by divorcing his wife, is sent back to Argovinia.
Alice Brady was an American actress who began her career in the silent film era and survived the transition into talkies. She worked until six months before her death from cancer in 1939. Her films include My Man Godfrey (1936), in which she plays the flighty mother of Carole Lombard's character, and In Old Chicago (1937) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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