The Breaking Point | |
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Directed by | Herbert Brenon |
Screenplay by | Edfrid A. Bingham Julie Herne |
Based on | The Breaking Point 1922 novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart |
Produced by | Jesse L. Lasky Adolph Zukor |
Starring | Nita Naldi Patsy Ruth Miller George Fawcett Matt Moore John Merkyl Theodore von Eltz Edythe Chapman |
Cinematography | James Wong Howe |
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Breaking Point is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by Herbert Brenon and written by Edfrid A. Bingham and Julie Herne. The film, based on the 1922 novel of the same name by Mary Roberts Rinehart, stars Nita Naldi, Patsy Ruth Miller, George Fawcett, Matt Moore, John Merkyl, Theodore von Eltz, and Edythe Chapman. [1] The film was released on May 4, 1924, by Paramount Pictures. [2]
As described in a film magazine review, [3] believing that he has killed the husband of Beverly Carlysle, an actress with whom he is infatuated, Judson Clark flees from the darkness of a ranch house in a western town into a snowstorm, is taken ill, and loses his memory. As Richard Livingstone, physician, he succeeds in New York City and becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. Ten years later while at a theater show, he is recognized from the stage by Beverly, who had thought her husband's killer had perished in the snow. He is taken to face justice back in Wyoming. There the real culprit confesses to the killing of Beverly's spouse. Judson finds happiness with Elizabeth.
A complete copy of The Breaking Point is preserved in the Library of Congress collection. [4] [5]
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