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Directed by | Alan Crosland |
Written by | John Lynch (scenario) |
Based on | Enemies of Women by Vicente Blasco Ibanez |
Produced by | Cosmopolitan Productions |
Starring | Alma Rubens Lionel Barrymore Pedro de Cordoba |
Cinematography | Ira H. Morgan |
Music by | William Frederick Peters |
Distributed by | Goldwyn Pictures |
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Running time | 105 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Enemies of Women is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Lionel Barrymore, Alma Rubens, Gladys Hulette, Pedro de Cordoba, and Paul Panzer. The film was produced by William Randolph Hearst through his Cosmopolitan Productions. Pre-fame actresses Clara Bow and Margaret Dumont have uncredited bit roles.
The film is based on the novel of the same title by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez.
As described in a film magazine review, [1] Alicia, an adventuress, has occasion to befriend a Russian prince with whom she flees to France. They are happily living together when the Prince sees her with her young son and, knowing nothing of his existence, mistakes him for a youthful lover and quits her. He and several friends form a club known as the "Enemies of Women and plan to have nothing more to do with them. However, circumstances finally reunite Alicia and the prince and they find happiness together.
A print of the film at the Library of Congress is believed to be incomplete, [2] missing reels 3 and 9 of 11 total. [3]
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A Man's Country is a 1919 silent Western drama film directed by Henry Kolker, and starring Alma Rubens, Alan Roscoe, and Lon Chaney. It was written by Richard Schayer based on a screen story by John Lynch. The poster's tagline was "A forceful and spectacular drama of the primitive West in the days of the Gold Rush, when men fought hard, women lived fast and human life was cheap."
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