Hail the Woman
| Hail the Woman | |
|---|---|
_-_Roberts_%26_Vidor.jpg) film still with Roberts and Vidor | |
| Directed by | John Griffith Wray |
| Written by | C. Gardner Sullivan |
| Produced by | Thomas H. Ince |
| Starring | Florence Vidor Lloyd Hughes Theodore Roberts |
| Cinematography | Henry Sharp |
| Distributed by | Associated Producers |
Release date |
|
Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Hail the Woman is a 1921 American silent drama film that was directed by John Griffith Wray. It was a Thomas Ince (Ince/Associated Producers) production. A Library of Congress copy of this film is listed as incomplete.[1][2]
Synopsis
Oliver Beresford is a controlling and uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, he bans her from his house. Her brother David is training for the ministry at his father’s insistence, but he has secretly wed Nan Higgins, the stepdaughter of an 'odd-jobs man', and has fathered, then abandoned his child. Nan travels up to New York where she becomes a prostitute after the baby is born. Judith goes to New York, to make a career for herself, and finds Nan and her baby just as the young woman is dying. Judith decides to raise the child, and later she returns to New England, on the day that David is to be ordained, and confronts him with the child in front of the congregation.[3]
Cast
- Florence Vidor - Judith Beresford
- Lloyd Hughes - David Beresford
- Theodore Roberts - Oliver Beresford
- Gertrude Claire - Mrs. Beresford
- Madge Bellamy - Nan Higgins
- Tully Marshall - 'Odd Jobs Man'
- Vernon Dent - Joe Hurd
- Edward Martindel - Wyndham Gray
- Charles Meredith - Richard Stuart
- Mathilde Brundage - Mrs. Stuart
- Eugene Hoffman - The Baby
- Muriel Frances Dana - David Junior
References
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, p. 74 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Film Survival Catalog: Hail the Woman
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Hail the Woman at silentera.com
External links
- Hail the Woman at IMDb
- Hail the Woman; allmovie.com
- Hail the Woman 1:33 excerpt on YouTube
- Sullivan, C. Gardner (2004). Synopsis and Continuity of Hail the Woman. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-41793-1781.
 | This article about a silent drama film from the 1920s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |