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Fires of Faith
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Edward José
Cast: Catherine Calvert [Elizabeth Blake], Eugene O’Brien [Harry Hammond, a broker], Rubye De Remer [Agnes Traverse, Harry’s fiancée], Helen Dunbar [Mrs. Traverse, her mother], Theodore Roberts [a salvationist], Charles Ogle [William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army], Clarence Geldart (Clarence Geldert) [Railton], James Neill [Booth’s secretary], Edythe Chapman [Mrs. Booth], Pat Moore [Jules, Pierre’s grandson], Fred Huntley [Joe Lee], Lucille Ward [Mrs. Lee], Mowbray Berkeley [Mark Southard, the Traverse estate manager], Robert Anderson [Luke Barlow], Kathleen O’Regan, Commander Evangeline Booth [?] [herself]?
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Beulah Marie Dix, from a screen story by Charles E. Whittaker. Cinematography by Hal Young (Harold Young) [interiors], and C. Edward Shoenbaum and Alvin Wyckoff [California locations]. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / Premiered 5 May 1919 at the Harris Theatre in New York, New York. Gerneral release, 3 August 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was produced with the cooperation of the Salvation Army, which receieved the proceeds from the Harris Theatre premiere including a guarantee of $25,000.
Drama.
Survival status: The film is presumed lost.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 6 November 2023.
References: Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb; Website-IMDb.
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