Broken Ties (film)

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Broken Ties is a 1918 silent film starring June Elvidge, Montagu Love, and Arthur Ashley. Ashley also directed the film. It was a William A. Brady World Pictures production. It was marketed as containing "not one dull moment". The film was based on Arthur M. Brilant's play The Alibi. The film received generally positive reviews. [1] A write-up in Motography describes it as a tense drama. [2] One aspect of the plot is a father forbidding his son from seeing a young woman believed to have mixed ethnic heritage. [2]

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References

  1. "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com.
  2. 1 2 "Motography". April 13, 1918.