Forbidden Waters

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Forbidden Waters
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Directed by Alan Hale
Written by Percy Heath
Charles A. Logue
Produced by John C. Flinn
Starring Priscilla Dean
Walter McGrail
Dan Mason
Cinematography Georges Benoît
Production
company
Metropolitan Pictures Corporation of California
Distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • March 21, 1926 (1926-03-21)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Forbidden Waters is a 1926 American silent comedy film directed by Alan Hale and starring Priscilla Dean, Walter McGrail, and Dan Mason. [1]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [2] J. Austin Bell, a divorced man, promises his former wife Nancy not to marry again unless she approves of the woman. He becomes infatuated with Ruby, an adventuress, who vows to win him from the courting of his former wife. The wife is aided by a man who has been robbed of some letters by the adventuress and her confederate. At the critical moment, Bell has the two arrested when Ruby goes too far in her scheme, and the man remarries his former wife.

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References

  1. Munden p. 266
  2. "New Pictures: Forbidden Waters". Exhibitors Herald. Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co. 25 (01): 91. March 20, 1926. Retrieved April 12, 2023.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

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