Below the Surface (1920 film)
| Below the Surface | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Irvin Willat |
| Written by | Luther Reed (screen story) E. Magnus Ingleton (scenario) |
| Produced by | Thomas H. Ince |
| Starring | Hobart Bosworth Grace Darmond |
| Cinematography | J.O. Taylor |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates | June 1920 April 22, 1923 (Finland) |
Running time | 60 minutes; 6 reels (6,220 feet) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Below the Surface is a surviving 1920 silent film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Hobart Bosworth. Thomas H. Ince produced the picture with distribution through Paramount Pictures.[1][2]
The film survives in the Library of Congress along with outtakes from the production.[3]
Plot
Based upon a description in a film magazine,[4] Martin Flint (Bosworth) and his son Luther (Hughes) are partners in a deep sea diving business, and a promoter tries to interest them in a fraudulent scheme to extract treasure from a sunken wreck. The father declines, but the son accepts, attracted by a young woman with the promoter, whom Luther then marries. She later leaves him, and Luther becomes delirious, so the father goes to an underworld dive in an attempt to get her back. Later, a steamer sinks after a collision with a derelict, carrying the promoter and Luther's wife to their deaths. Luther refuses to accept his father's story that the woman was worthless, and dives on the sunken steamer only to discover his wife embraced in the arms of her lover.
Cast
- Hobart Bosworth - Martin Flint
- Grace Darmond - Edna Gordon
- Lloyd Hughes - Luther Flint
- George Webb - James Arnold
- Gladys George - Alice
- J. P. Lockney - Dave
- Edith Yorke - Marth Flint
- George Clair - Geb Quail
References
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Below the Surface at silentera.com
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978
- ^ "Below the Surface: Bosworth's Acting and Graphic Incidents Make Entertaining Picture". Motion Picture News. 21 (26). New York City: Motion Picture News, Inc.: 5009 June 19, 1920. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
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