Honour Thy Mother | |
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Directed by | Paul L. Stein |
Written by | Johannes Elgin |
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Production company | Deutsche Film Union |
Distributed by | Deutsche First National Pictures |
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Country | Germany |
Languages | Silent German intertitles |
Honour Thy Mother (German : Ehre deine Mutter) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Mary Carr, Walter Rilla and Anita Dorris. [1]
The film's sets were designed by the art director Leopold Blonder. It was made by the German subsidiary of First National Pictures.
Rilla of Ingleside (1921) is the eighth and last novel in the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, but was the sixth "Anne" novel in publication order. This book draws the focus back onto a single character, Anne and Gilbert's youngest daughter Bertha Marilla "Rilla" Blythe. It has a more serious tone, as it takes place during World War I and the three Blythe boys—Jem, Walter, and Shirley—along with Rilla's sweetheart Ken Ford, playmates Jerry Meredith and Carl Meredith—end up fighting in Europe with the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
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Mary Carr, was an American film actress and was married to the actor William Carr. She appeared in more than 140 films from 1915 to 1956. She was given some of filmdoms plum mother roles in silent pictures, especially Fox's 1920 Over the Hill to the Poorhouse, which was a great success. She was interred in Calvary Cemetery. Carr bore a strong resemblance to Lucy Beaumont, another famous character actress of the time who specialized in mother roles. As older actresses such as Mary Maurice and Anna Townsend passed on, Carr, still in her forties, seem to inherit all the matriarchal roles in silent films.
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