The Green Temptation
| The Green Temptation | |
|---|---|
_-_Compson_1.jpg) Betty Compson in a still for the film | |
| Directed by | William Desmond Taylor |
| Produced by |
Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky |
| Written by |
Julia Crawford Ivers (scenario) Monte Katterjohn (scenario) |
| Based on | short story The Noose by Constance Lindsay Skinner |
| Starring |
Betty Compson Theodore Kosloff |
| Cinematography | James Van Trees |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release dates | April 2, 1922 |
Running time | 60 minutes; 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Green Temptation is a lost[1] 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Betty Compson.[2][3]
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Plot
Betty plays a girl who is involved in the Paris Underworld. During WW1 she becomes a wartime Red Cross nurse and after the war leaves for America for a new start in life. There she meets an old wartime colleague (Kosloff), a criminal who is conniving to steal a valuable jewel called 'The Green Temptation'. Kosloff wants Betty to help him steal the jewel and when she balks he threatens to reveal her sordid past to her new American friends. Scotland yard detective (Mahlon Hamilton), probably hired to protect the jewel, is sweet on Betty and kills Kosloff when he tries to steal the jewel.
The film has a similarity to von Stroheim's Foolish Wives released that same year.
Cast
- Betty Compson - Genelle/Coralyn/Joan Parker
- Mahlon Hamilton - John Allenby
- Theodore Kosloff - Gaspard
- Neely Edwards - Pitou
- Edward Burns - Hugh Duyker
- Lenore Lynard - Duchesse de Chazarin
- Mary Thurman - Dolly Dunton
- William von Hardenburg - Monsieur Jounet
- Betty Brice - Mrs. Weedon Duyker
- Arthur Hull - Mr. Weedon Duyker
References
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Green Temptation. |
- The Green Temptation at the Internet Movie Database
- synopsis at AllMovie
- Lobby card and poster
