The Devil-Stone
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| The Devil-Stone | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Produced by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Written by | Beatrice DeMille Jeanie MacPherson Leighton Osmun |
| Starring | Geraldine Farrar Wallace Reid Hobart Bosworth Tully Marshall |
| Cinematography | Alvin Wyckoff |
| Editing by | Cecil B. DeMille |
| Studio | Famous Players-Lasky/Artcraft |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 16, 1917 |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent English intertitles |
The Devil-Stone is a 1917 American romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and co-written by his mother Beatrice and his some time lover Jeanie MacPherson. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process").
Only two reels of this film are known to survive, in the American Film Institute collection at the Library of Congress thus it is incomplete.[1]
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[edit] Plot
Fisherwoman Marcia Manot (Farrar) finds an emerald which belonged to a Norse queen, and is cursed. Fortune hunter Silas Martin (Marshall) marries her to get the emerald.
[edit] Cast
- Geraldine Farrar as Marcia Manot
- Wallace Reid as Guy Sterling
- Hobart Bosworth as Robert Judson
- Tully Marshall as Silas Martin
- James Neill as Simpson
- Mabel Van Buren
- Lillian Leighton
- Gustav von Seyffertitz as Stephen Densmore
- Horace B. Carpenter
- Ernest Joy
- Burwell Hamrick
- Raymond Hatton
- Theodore Roberts
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Devil-Stone". Silent Era. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DevilStone1917.html. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
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