The Flower of Doom

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The Flower of Doom
Directed by Rex Ingram
Written byRex Ingram (scenario)
Starring Wedgwood Nowell
Yvette Mitchell
Nicholas Dunaew
Cinematography Duke Hayward
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Film Manufacturing Company
Release date
  • April 16, 1917 (1917-04-16)
Running time
approximately 70 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Flower of Doom is a 1917 silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram and starring Wedgwood Nowell, Yvette Mitchell and Nicholas Dunaew. A reporter has to rescue a singer kidnapped in Chinatown.

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Preservation status

The film has been preserved from a 35mm nitrate print by George Eastman House and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Steven K. Hill (March 6, 2011). "The Chalice of Sorrow (1916) / The Flower of Doom (1917)". UCLA Film and Television Archive. Retrieved July 6, 2015.