The Unguarded Hour (1925 film)

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The Unguarded Hour
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Directed by Lambert Hillyer
Written by John W. Krafft
Joseph F. Poland
Margaretta Tuttle
Starring Milton Sills
Doris Kenyon
Claude King
Cinematography Roy Carpenter
Edited by Arthur Tavares
Production
company
First National Pictures
Distributed by First National Pictures
Release date
  • November 22, 1925 (1925-11-22)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Unguarded Hour is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, and Claude King. [1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Milton Menasco. [2]

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Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine, [3] Bryce Gilbert (King), business man, shows his daughter Virginia (Kenyon) the folly of an intended elopement with a youth. She goes to Italy and meets Duke Andrea d'Arona (Sills), a young and handsome man, who is puzzled by her jazzy American ways and doubts her character. Virginia is found with a certain male flirt in her room and misunderstood until it develops that the duke's sister (Cassinelli) has been misled by the male flirt and is listening in another room. The sister kills herself and the tragedy brings the duke and the young American woman to an understanding of their love.

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Preservation

With no prints of The Unguarded Hour located in any film archives, [4] it is a lost film.

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References

  1. Munden p. 748
  2. Progressive Silent Film List: The Unguarded Hour at silentera.com
  3. Smith, Sumner (December 5, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: The Unguarded Hour; Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon in Emotional and Gripping Story that Should Please Fans". The Moving Picture World. 77 (5). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 481. Retrieved October 16, 2021.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Unguarded Hour

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