A Dark Lantern

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A Dark Lantern
File:A Dark Lantern 1920 newspaper publicity image.jpg
Publicity photo from a contemporary newspaper.
Directed by John S. Robertson
Produced by Realart Pictures
Written by Elizabeth Robins (novel: A Dark Lantern c. 1905)
Burns Mantle (scenario)
Starring Alice Brady
James L. Crane
Cinematography Roy Overbaugh
Distributed by Realart Pictures
Release dates
July 16, 1920
Running time
6 reels (5,956 feet)
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

A Dark Lantern is a lost 1920 American silent film drama produced and released by Realart Pictures. It is based on a 1905 novel by Elizabeth Robins.

John S. Robertson directed and Alice Brady and her then husband James Crane star.[1][2][3]

According to the AFI Catalog, the film was shot at the Essanay studios in Chicago as that was where Alice Brady was appearing in a play at the time.

Cast

  • Alice Brady - Katherine Dereham
  • James Crane - Dr. Garth Vincent
  • Reginald Denny - Prince Anton
  • Brandon Hurst - Colonel Dereham
  • Marie Burke - Lady Peterborough
  • David Monterno - Graf-Wilhelm
  • Carolyn Irwin - Mrs. Hally
  • Mrs. Tony West - Mrs. Todine
  • Roni Pursell - Princess Margaretha
  • Russell McDermott - Leonard
  • Virginia Huppert - Nurse for Katherine
  • Dorothy Betts - Natalie, Maid

References

  1. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 published by The American Film Institute, c.1920
  2. allmovie/synopsis; A Dark Lantern
  3. Pictorial History of the Silent Screen by Daniel C. Blum , c. 1953 p. 173

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