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Without Benefit of Clergy
Film still with Thomas Holding and Virginia Brown Faire
Directed byJames Young
Written byRandolph Lewis
Based onWithout Benefit of Clergy
by Rudyard Kipling
Produced byRobert Brunton
StarringNigel De Brulier
Virginia Brown Faire
CinematographyJack Okey
Production
company
Robert Brunton Productions
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
  • June 19, 1921 (1921-06-19)
Running time
6 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Boris Karloff.[1] It is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling.[2] A print of the film still exists.[3][4]

Plot

As summarized in a review,[5] Holden, a young English engineer in India, falls in love with the native girl Ameera, so he buys her from her mother. They live together very happily until their baby son dies. Later Ameera dies during a cholera plague.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Without Benefit of Clergy". Silent Era. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
  2. ^ Harold Bloom, ed. Rudyard Kipling. Chelsea House, 2004.
  3. ^ Without Benefit of Clergy, silentera.com, retrieved December 13, 2013
  4. ^ "Without Benefit of Clergy". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
  5. ^ "Plenty of Atmosphere in Undramatic Story", The Film Daily, p. 3, June 26, 1921, retrieved December 13, 2013