The Green Temptation

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The Green Temptation
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Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Written by Julia Crawford Ivers (scenario)
Monte Katterjohn (scenario)
Based on"The Noose"
by Constance Lindsay Skinner
Produced by Adolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
Starring Betty Compson
Theodore Kosloff
Cinematography James Van Trees
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date
  • April 2, 1922 (1922-04-02)
Running time
60 minutes; 6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Green Temptation is a lost [1] 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Betty Compson. [2] [3] It was written by Julia Crawford Ivers and Monte Katterjohn based upon the short story "The Noose" by Constance Lindsay Skinner.

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Betty Compson in a film still. The Green Temptation (1922) - Compson 1.jpg
Betty Compson in a film still.
Still with Betty Compson. The Green Temptation (1922) - Compson 2.jpg
Still with Betty Compson.

Plot

Betty plays a girl who is involved in the Paris criminal underworld. During World War I she becomes a wartime Red Cross nurse and after the war leaves for America for a new start in life. There she meets an old wartime colleague (Kosloff), a criminal who is conniving to steal a valuable jewel called 'The Green Temptation'. Kosloff wants Betty to help him steal the jewel and when she balks he threatens to reveal her sordid past to her new American friends. Scotland Yard detective (Mahlon Hamilton), probably hired to protect the jewel, is sweet on Betty and kills Kosloff when he tries to steal the jewel.

The film has a similarity to von Stroheim's Foolish Wives released that same year.

Cast

Production

The Green Temptation was released posthumously following the unsolved murder of its director William Desmond Taylor on February 1, 1922.

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