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The Hopes of Blind Alley
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Three reels
Directed by Allan Dwan

Cast: Pauline Bush [Pauline], Murdock MacQuarrie [Jean Basse], William C. Dowlan [the unsuccessful artist], Lon Chaney [the vendor], George Cooper [the little janitor]

New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [101-Bison]. / Scenario by Allan, from a screen story by Grace Johnson and Murdock MacQuarrie. Cinematography by Lee Bartholomew. / Released 4 July 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 September 2009.

References: Spehr-American p. 100 : Website-IMDb.