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1924 film by Marshall Neilan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a 1924 American silent drama film starring Blanche Sweet and Conrad Nagel.[1][2] It was directed by Sweet's husband, Marshall Neilan. The film is the second motion picture adaptation of the 1891 novel by Thomas Hardy, which had been turned into a very successful 1897 play starring Mrs. Fiske.[3] In 1913, Adolph Zukor enticed Mrs. Fiske to reprise her role in a film version which is now considered lost. The 1924 version is also considered lost.[4]
Tess of the d'Urbervilles | |
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Directed by | Marshall Neilan |
Written by | Dorothy Farnum |
Based on | Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy |
Produced by | Louis B. Mayer |
Starring | Blanche Sweet Conrad Nagel Stuart Holmes |
Cinematography | David Kesson |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn |
Release date |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
A young servant girl is seduced and raped by an older middle class man in Victorian England when employed in his household. After moving on with her path, she gets married. All is well until her husband discovers her past. This fact prompts her on a life of wandering, murder, and execution.
After the film was completed, Louis B. Mayer changed the tragic ending to a happy one, much to the annoyance of Neilan and Hardy.[5]
With no prints of Tess of the d'Urbervilles located in any film archives,[6] it is a lost film.
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