The Test (1916 film)

The Test
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Directed by	George Fitzmaurice
Written by	R.E. McGlinn (play) J. Quinlan (play)
Starring	Jane Grey Lumsden Hare Claude Fleming
Cinematography	Arthur C. Miller
Production company	Astra Film
Distributed by	Pathé Exchange
Release date	September 18, 1916 (1916-09-18)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Test is a 1916 American silent drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice and starring Jane Grey, Lumsden Hare ^[1] and Claude Fleming. ^[2]

The film adapts a play by J. Quinlan. ^[3]

A print of this five-reel film exists at the Cinémathèque française. ^[4]

Cast

• Jane Grey as Emma Tretman
• Lumsden Hare as Arthur Thome
• Claude Fleming as Freddie Wayne
• Carl Harbaugh as Richard Tretman
• Inez Buck as Thome's Sister
• Ida Darling

Other

The film is not to be confused with Rawdon Blandford's The Test (also 1916), a lost film. ^[5]

References

1. Matheson, Sue (December 2, 2019). The John Ford Encyclopedia. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN   978-1-5381-0382-1.
2. Parish & Pitts p.126
3. Goble, Alan (September 8, 2011). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN   978-3-11-095194-3.
4. "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com. Retrieved March 12, 2025.
5. Dixon, Wheeler Winston (February 28, 2000). The Second Century of Cinema: The Past and Future of the Moving Image. State University of New York Press. ISBN   978-0-7914-9290-1.

Bibliography

• James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts. Film directors: a guide to their American films. Scarecrow Press, 1974.

External links

• The Test at IMDb