A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Courtenay Foote. Photograph: courtesy Kino Lorber.

Cast: Courtenay Foote [Gabriel, the ascetic], Myrtle Stedman [the woman], Herbert Standing [the abbot], Adele Farrington [the queen], Margaret Edwards [Truth], Dixie Carr [a magdalen], Jane Darwell, [?] Nigel de Brulier?

Bosworth, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Lois Weber. Assistant director, Nat Watt. Technical director, Frank Ormston. Cinematography by Dal Clawson + [George Hill]. / © 30 September 1914 by Bosworth, Incorporated [LU3460]. Released 20 January 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA in 1916.

Drama: Allegory.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2112.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [American Film Institute collection].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Corruption - Nudity - Law: Enforcement: Police: Policemen - Politics - Prostitutes

Listing updated: 28 July 2013.

References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.2112; Brownlow-Behind pp. xv, xxii; Thompson-Lost p. 40 : UnivWeekly-19150612 p. 14 : Documentary-Slide : Website-AFI.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.