All Souls Eve
4 /10 1 Votes
Country United States | Director Chester Franklin Language Silent (English intertitles) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date February 1921 (1921-02) Based on All Souls Eve
by Anne Crawford Flexner Writer Anne Crawford Flexner (play), Elmer Harris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All Souls Eve was a 1921 American silent drama film. The film is based on the mystical 1920 Broadway play of the same name by Anne Crawford Flexner. Produced and distributed by Paramount offshoot Realart Pictures, All Souls Eve was directed by Chester Franklin and starred Mary Miles Minter, who played two parts in the same scene through the use of double exposure. The film is now considered lost.
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Plot
The films subject matter deals with mysticism and reincarnation. Based upon a summary in a film publication, Nora OHallahan (Minter) comes to America only to find her mother dead. The Irish girl takes a position as the nurse for the Heaths child. Alice Heath (Minter) is killed and, after almost losing himself through his grief, the artist husband Roger (Holt) receives inspiration through Nora, who has grown marvelously like the dead wife through her love for the child. Noras belief in the return of spirits is responsible for saving the childs life, while the artist feels that Alice has returned to him in the form of Nora, and he makes her his wife.