Love's Penalty

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Love's Penalty
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Directed by John Gilbert
Screenplay byJohn Gilbert
Starring Hope Hampton
Irma Harrison
Mrs. Phillip Landau
Percy Marmont
John B. O'Brien
Virginia Valli
Cinematography Alfred Ortlieb
Edited byJohn Gilbert
Production
company
Hope Hampton Productions
Distributed by Associated First National Pictures
Release date
  • June 1921 (1921-06)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Love's Penalty is a 1921 American drama film written and directed by John Gilbert. The film stars Hope Hampton, Irma Harrison, Mrs. Phillip Landau, Percy Marmont, John B. O'Brien, and Virginia Valli. The film was released in June 1921, by Associated First National Pictures. [1] [2] [3]

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Plot

In this melodramatic silent film, Janis Clayton (Hope Hampton) seeks revenge for the death of her sister Sally (Irma Harrison) and mother Martha (Mrs. Phillip Landau). To accomplish this, Janis becomes the personal secretary of Steven Saunders (Percy Marmont), the man responsible for their deaths, and seduces him. She then convinces Saunders to murder his wife (Virginia Vallie) by sending her to Europe on a ship destined for dangerous waters. After the ship sinks, Janis reveals her plan to ruin him. Saunders is furious and attempts to kill her, but he is shot by a Bohemian artist whose wife and child also died in the shipwreck. After all is done, Janis lives as an outcast and eventually finds sanctuary in the home of a friendly minister named Reverend John Kirchway (Charles Lane). The film ends when Janis is reunited with her former lover, Bud (John B. O'Brien). [4]

Cast

Production

A revised version of "Love's Penalty" was retitled and edited by Katherine Hilliker, one of Hollywood's first female film editors. Hilliker had a reputation for "rescuing problem-plagued film," [5] and in a review of her revised version of "Love's Penalty" the Motion Picture News wrote, "Miss Hilliker, in remoulding the picture, has supplied logical reasons for previously shallow spots . . . and made the photoplay a most interesting drama." [6]

Preservation

With no prints of Love's Penalty located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Love's Penalty (1921) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  2. ↑ Janiss Garza. "Love's Penalty (1921) - Jack Gilbert". AllMovie. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Love's Penalty". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  4. ↑ Munden, Kenneth White; Institute, American Film (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520209695.
  5. ↑ "Katharine Hilliker – Women Film Pioneers Project". wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ Munden, Kenneth White; Institute, American Film (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520209695.
  7. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Love's Penalty
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