The Gilded Highway

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The Gilded Highway
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Film poster
Directed by J. Stuart Blackton
Written by Marian Constance Blackton (adaptation)
Based onA Little More
by William Babington Maxwell
Starring Dorothy Devore
John Harron
Macklyn Arbuckle
Cinematography Nicholas Musuraca
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • June 19, 1926 (1926-06-19)
Running time
74 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Gilded Highway is a lost 1926 American silent drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and starring Dorothy Devore, John Harron, and Macklyn Arbuckle. [1] [2]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [3] a rich uncle dies and leaves money to the Welby family. The results are disastrous. Young Jack Welby abandons Amabel, the young woman he is engaged to; his sister Primrose quits her fiance Hugo Blythe; and the whole family goes in for high living. In the end when they are broke, they come to their senses, but not before all family members experience considerable grief. A faithful former servant who runs their old home as a boarding house comes to their assistance. The lovers are reunited.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of The Gilded Highway in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. Leider, Emily W. (2011). Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood. University of California Press. p. 315. ISBN   978-0-520-25320-9.
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: The Gilded Highway at silentera.com
  3. Pardy, George T. (April 17, 1926), "Pre-Release Review of Features: The Gilded Highway", Motion Picture News, 33 (16), New York City, New York: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 1835, retrieved April 20, 2023PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Gilded Highway