The Diamond from the Sky

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The Diamond from the Sky
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Directed by	Jacques Jaccard William Desmond Taylor
Written by	Roy L. McCardell
Starring	Charlotte Burton William Russell Irving Cummings Jack Hoxie George Field
Distributed by	American Film Company
Release date(s)	1915
Running time	U.S.:900 min (30 episodes)
Language	Silent film English intertitles
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The Diamond from the Sky was a popular 1915 American silent short classic adventure film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and William Desmond Taylor starring Charlotte Burton, William Russell, and Irving Cummings. The film is considered to be lost. ^[1]

Tagline: Emphatically the greatest film ever produced, a ceasless cataract of action - The Serial Wonderful!

1 Plot
2 Other cast
- 2.1 Gallery
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Plot

"The Heritage of Hate". The prologue depicts the finding of “The Diamond From the Sky” which later becomes the heirloom of the Stanley family, while the two reels of the first chapter show the intense rivalry between Colonel Arthur Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, Virginia aristocrats and descendants of Lord Arthur Stanley, two hundred years later.

When a girl is born to the young wife of Colonel Arthur Stanley, the latter, to retain an earldom and “The Diamond From the Sky,” buys a new born Gypsy baby boy and substitutes it for his own babe. Judge Lamar Stanley visits Colonel Arthur Stanley’s home to see the child just as Hagar, the gypsy woman, bursts into the room to demand her boy, and the colonel falls unconscious across the library table.