The Sign on the Door

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The Sign on the Door
Film still with Cody and Talmadge
Directed byHerbert Brenon
Written byHerbert Brenon
Mary Murillo
Based onThe Sign on the Door
by Channing Pollock
Produced byNorma Talmadge
StarringNorma Talmadge
CinematographyJ. Roy Hunt
Distributed byAssociated First National Pictures
Release date
  • May 1921 (1921-05)
Running time
84 minsutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Sign on the Door is a 1921 American silent drama film starring Norma Talmadge and Lew Cody. The film was directed and written by Herbert Brenon, and based upon the 1919 play of the same name by Channing Pollock.[1] A copy of this film is in the Library of Congress film archive.[2]

A second adaptation of the play was filmed in 1929 as The Locked Door, starring Barbara Stanwyck.[3]

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  1. ^ White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. pp. 715–716. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
  2. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Sign on the Door". Silent Era. Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  3. ^ White Munden 1997 p. 445

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