The lost film that made 'St. Elmo's Fire' a household name — literally gone forever.
After a love triangle results death, St. Elmo falls from grace and is eventually redeemed in this now lost silent film based on the best selling novel by Augusta Jane Wilson.
Production
Fox's first feature-length production — history in celluloid.
Costume
Elaborate 1870s period dress on a massive scale.
Director
J. Gordon Edwards
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The novel sold 600,000 copies by 1900 and spawned countless adaptations; 'St. Elmo's Fire' as a phenomenon predates the 80s by decades.
No known prints survive — the last was destroyed in a 1937 Fox vault fire. This film is genuinely extinct.
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