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Saved from the Harem
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Four reels
Directed by Wilbert Melville + [Edward Sloman]

Cast: Melvin Mayo [Ezra Hickman], Adelaide Bronti [Martha Hickman], Violet MacMillan [Amy Hickman], L.C. Shumway (Leonard C. Shumway) [Lieutenant Robert Brice], George Routh [Selim Bey], Jay Morley [his ambassador], Adda Gleason [Hanoum], Admiral Howard

Lubin Manufacturing Company production; distributed by The General Film Company, Incorporated [Unit Program]. / From a screen story by Julian Louis Lamothe and Wilbert Melville. / © 20 December 1915 by Lubin Manufacturing Company [LP7265]. Released 27 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot at Lubin’s Coronado, California studio. The direction was credited to Wilbert Melville; the film was Sloman’s first as a film director.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Americans (Abroad) - Battleships - Crime: Murder (Attempted) - Diplomats - Harems - Jealousy - Palaces - Rescues - Revenge - USA: Illinois (Kankakee), Washington D.C.

Listing updated: 6 December 2023.

References: Brownlow-Parade p. 159; Slide-Aspects p. 58 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.