Morals (film)

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Morals
Directed by William Desmond Taylor
Produced by Realart Pictures Company
Written by William J. Locke(novel:The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne)
Julia Crawford Ivers(scenario)
Starring May McAvoy
William P. Carleton
Cinematography James Van Trees
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates November 1921
Running time 5 reels(5,152 feet)
Country United States
Language Silent

Morals is a 1921 silent American drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring May McAvoy, William P. Carleton and Marian Skinner. It is based on a 1905 novel, The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne by William J. Locke which was produced as a 1907 Broadway play starring Marie Doro who later made her screen debut in a 1915 film version . A British talkie of Locke's story was made in 1935 as The Morals of Marcus. The 1921 Morals is preserved at the Library of Congress.[1] [2] [3] [4]

A woman escapes the Turkish harem in which she has been brought up and flees to London in the company of a British adventurer.

Cast

References

  1. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/43147
  2. Morals at silentera.com database
  3. The Morals of Marcus as produced on Broadway, at the Criterion Theatre, beginning November 18, 1907; IBDb.com
  4. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Morals

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