Rex Ingram's lost gem: can virtue be taught, or just performed?
Direction
Early Rex Ingram already staging complex moral tableaux.
Acting
Violet Mersereau's physicality sells the street-to-parlor arc.
Director
Rex Ingram
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during peak Progressive Era prison reform fervor; Ingram would soon flee to Europe and become the most visually extravagant director of the 1920s.
Ingram discovered Rudolph Valentino and essentially invented the 'Latin lover' archetype—imagine this director's eye on THAT face.
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