The Devil-Stone

The Devil-Stone
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Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by	Jesse L. Lasky Cecil B. DeMille
Written by	Beatrice DeMille Jeanie MacPherson Leighton Osmun
Starring	Geraldine Farrar Wallace Reid Hobart Bosworth Tully Marshall
Cinematography	Alvin Wyckoff
Edited by	Cecil B. DeMille
Production company	Famous Players-Lasky/Artcraft
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	December 16, 1917 (1917-12-16)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent

The Devil-Stone is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and co-written by his mother Beatrice and his some time lover Jeanie MacPherson. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process").

Only two of six reels are known to survive, in the American Film Institute Collection at the Library of Congress.^[1]^[2]

This was the last of Farrar's films for Paramount.

Plot

Fisherwoman Marcia Manot (Farrar) finds an emerald which belonged to a Norse queen, and is cursed. Fortune hunter Silas Martin (Marshall) marries her to get the emerald.

Cast

Geraldine Farrar as Marcia Manot
Wallace Reid as Guy Sterling
Hobart Bosworth as Robert Judson
Tully Marshall as Silas Martin
James Neill as Simpson
Mabel Van Buren
Lillian Leighton
Gustav von Seyffertitz as Stephen Densmore
Horace B. Carpenter
Ernest Joy
Burwell Hamrick
Raymond Hatton
Theodore Roberts

References

↑ Birchard, Richard S. (2009). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. p. 28. ISBN 0813138299. Retrieved February 25, 2013. Unfortunately, only two reels of the original six reels of The Devil-Stone are known to survive in the American Film Institute Collection in the Library of Congress.
↑ "The Devil-Stone". WorldCat. Retrieved February 25, 2013.

External links

The Devil-Stone at the Internet Movie Database
The Devil-Stone at silentera.com
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Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille

Silent	The Squaw Man (1914) Brewster's Millions (1914) The Master Mind (1914) The Only Son (1914) The Man on the Box (1914) The Call of the North (1914) The Virginian (1914) What's His Name (1914) The Man from Home (1914) Rose of the Rancho (1914) The Ghost Breaker (1914) The Girl of the Golden West (1915) After Five (1915) The Warrens of Virginia (1915) The Unafraid (1915) The Captive (1915) The Wild Goose Chase (1915) The Arab (1915) Chimmie Fadden (1915) Kindling (1915) Carmen (1915) Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) The Cheat (1915) Temptation (1915) The Golden Chance (1915) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) Maria Rosa (1916) The Dream Girl (1916) Joan the Woman (1916) Lost and Won (1917) A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) The Little American (1917) The Woman God Forgot (1917) Nan of Music Mountain (1917) The Devil-Stone (1917) The Whispering Chorus (1918) Old Wives for New (1918) We Can't Have Everything (1918) Till I Come Back to You (1918) The Squaw Man (1918) Don't Change Your Husband (1919) For Better, for Worse (1919) Male and Female (1919) Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Something to Think About (1920) Forbidden Fruit (1921) The Affairs of Anatol (1921) Fool's Paradise (1921) Saturday Night (1922) Manslaughter (1922) Adam's Rib (1923) The Ten Commandments (1923) Triumph (1924) Feet of Clay (1924) The Golden Bed (1925) The Road to Yesterday (1925) The Volga Boatman (1926) The King of Kings (1927) Walking Back (1928) The Godless Girl (1929)

Sound	Dynamite (1929) Madam Satan (1930) The Squaw Man (1931) The Sign of the Cross (1932) This Day and Age (1933) Four Frightened People (1934) Cleopatra (1934) The Crusades (1935) The Plainsman (1936) The Buccaneer (1938) Union Pacific (1939) North West Mounted Police (1940) Reap the Wild Wind (1942) The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Unconquered (1947) California's Golden Beginning (1948) Samson and Delilah (1949) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Devil-Stone

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