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In the Balance
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Paul Scardon
Cast: Earle Williams [John Strangeway], Grace Darmond [Louise Maurel], Miriam Miles [Sophy Gerard], Denton Vane [Prince of Seyre], Robert Gaillard [Stephen Strangeway], Templar Saxe [Graillot], Julia Swayne Gordon [Lady Hilda Mullock], Peggy O’Dare
The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by Greater Vitagraph, Incorporated [A Blue Ribbon Feature]. / Scenario by Garfield Thompson, from the novel The Hillman by Edward Phillips Oppenheim. Presented by Albert E. Smith. / © 12 December 1917 by The Vitagraph Company of America [LP11828]. Released 17 December 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Hillman. The novel was subsequently filmed as Behold This Woman (1924).
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The actress is on her way to visit the Prince in his castle when she is stranded on a lonely road by an accident to her motor car. The Hillman happens along and takes her to Peak Hall. He is still young and handsome, but marked by the stern fanatical belief of his family that no member of it ever should leave the hills. In an exchange of confidence, the Hillman warns the actress not to visit the dissolute Prince, and she in turn tells him that for once he should try the broader life of the cities. Both heed the other’s advice. She returns to the city, and he, in a brief period, follows. The Prince, still pursuing the actress, seeks to entangle the Hillman by throwing a notorious dancer in his path, but fails. Strangeway, the Hillman, proposes to Louise, the actress, but she withholds her answer. His brother comes from the hills to reclaim him, but his mission is vain. Again the Hillman proposes to Louise, who is always in the company of the Prince, and this time is accepted. Angered at his apparent loss of the actress, the Prince makes a scandalous remark about her at his club, which is resented with blows by the Hillman, whose love is all but crushed, when hurrying to Louise she admits what the Prince said is true. The Hillman returns to Peak Hill where a few months later as he is reading in a paper of the engagement of the actress and the Prince, she arrives at his home. She assures him that she is good, not bad, and that she did make the promise to the Prince when she believed he loved her, and both the Hillman and his brother receive her as one of them. // Additional synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2159.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Actors - Actresses - Brothers - Curses - Royalty - Superstition
Listing updated: 14 July 2023.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2159 : Website-AFI.
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