Alien Souls

Alien Souls
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Directed by	Frank Reicher
Story by	Margaret Turnbull Hector Turnbull [1]
Produced by	Jesse Lasky
Starring	Sessue Hayakawa Tsuru Aoki
Cinematography	Walter Stradling
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 11, 1916 (1916-05-11)
Running time	5 reels
Country	USA
Language	Silent film (English intertitles)

Alien Souls is a lost ^[2] 1916 American silent drama film directed by Frank Reicher and starring Sessue Hayakawa, his real-life wife Tsuru Aoki and Earle Foxe. It was developed as a vehicle for Hayakawa after the success of his film The Cheat. ^{[3] [4]}

Cast

• Sessue Hayakawa - Sakata
• Tsuru Aoki - Yuri Chan
• Earle Foxe - Aleck Lindsay
• Grace Benham - Mrs. Conway
• J. Parks Jones - Jack Holloway
• Violet Malone - Gertrude Van Ness
• Dorothy Abril - Geraldine Smythe

Preservation

With no prints of Alien Souls located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film. ^[2]

References

1. "Film Flickerings". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, Iowa. August 24, 1916. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
2. "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Alien Souls". memory.loc.gov. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved November 8, 2025.
3. "Alien Souls". afi.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
4. "Progressive Silent Film List: Alien Souls". silentera.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.

External links

• Alien Souls at IMDb