A 1917 silent film about cocaine addiction that judges YOU for your weekend plans.
Brothers James and Allen Mornington are both addicted to cocaine and both believe that their addiction is caused by a hereditary failing. James rises to the position of judge, but when Allen is brought into his court on drug charges, James resigns. The two brothers, along with James's daughter, Hilda, then retire to the country to fight their desire for drugs.
Direction
Holubar's earnest melodrama before the Production Code neutered everything.
Director
Allen Holubar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fear Not was part of a wave of 'white slavery' and drug panic films before the 1922 Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America formed to clean up Hollywood's image.
This is considered a lost film—no known prints survive, so everything we know comes from contemporary trade reviews and plot summaries. Frank Borzage, who plays Franklin Shirley here, would win the first Best Director Oscar a decade later for 7th Heaven.
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