Outcast (1922 film)

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Outcast
Outcast lobby card
Directed by	Chester "Chet" Withey
Produced by	Famous Players-Lasky
Written by	Hubert Henry Davies (play Outcast) Josephine Lovett (scenario)
Starring	Elsie Ferguson David Powell William Powell
Cinematography	Ernest Haller
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	December 11, 1922
Running time	70 min.
Language	Silent film

Outcast (1922) is a silent film drama directed by Chester Withey. The film starred Elsie Ferguson (in her next to last silent) and David Powell. William Powell has a small supporting part in this which was his third film.

The movie is based on the play of the same name by Hubert Henry Davies and had been performed on Broadway in 1914 with Ferguson in the lead. The story was filmed in 1917 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels, afterwards filmed as Outcast with Corinne Griffith and Edmund Lowe in a Vitaphone version in 1928, and was the basis of The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935) starring Bette Davis and released by Warner Brothers.

Preservation status

The 1922 film is now considered a lost film.^[1] However, one source claims a print may exist in Milan, Italy at the Cineteca Italiana.^[2]

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