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], Nigel de Brulier [the snooping monk], Jane Darwell

Bosworth, Incorporated, production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Lois Weber. Technical direction by Frank Ormston. Assistant director, Nat Watt. Photographed (cinematography) by Dal Clawson and George W. Hill. / © 30 September 1914 by Bosworth, Incorporated [LU3460]. Released 20 January 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Prerelease publicity described the film as a five-reel feature and identified 19 October 1914 as the film’s release date. The film was rereleased in the USA in 1916.

Drama: Allegory.

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

Survival status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive (American Film Institute collection) [35mm acetate duplicate negative]; in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm nitrate positive]; and in the National Film and Sound Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

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

Listing updated: 19 February 2024.

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; Website-ASFFDb.

Home video: Blu-ray Disc, DVD.