A scandal, a shooting, and 70 minutes of cinema we'll never see. Lost forever.
The McCulloughs agree to separate when Julian is seven years of age. His mother raises him according to her own ideas and fourteen years pass. He meets by accident Lynnie Willis, a poor girl, at a home for girls. He takes her to a dance, where he encounters Peter Straski, her affianced husband. Straski shoots a hole in the gas tank of Julian's car, and they are forced to stay all night at a hotel. A scandal results. A lost film.
Direction
John S. Robertson shaping early melodrama conventions.
Acting
Richard Barthelmess at peak silent stardom, now ghost performance.
Director
John S. Robertson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'lost film' status makes this a ghost in cinema history — we know more about what it promised than what it delivered.
Richard Barthelmess was huge in 1923; this disappearance from his filmography is like finding a missing chapter in a bestselling book.
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