Keys of the Righteous
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Genre Drama Story by C. Gardner Sullivan Country United States | Director Jerome Storm Screenplay C. Gardner Sullivan Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date February 18, 1918 (1918-02-18) Writer C. Gardner Sullivan (screenplay), C. Gardner Sullivan (story) Cast Josef Swickard (Paul Manning), George Nichols (Peter Manning), Enid Bennett (Mary Manning), Earle Rodney (Tom Gale), Gertrude Claire (Sarah Ann Watts)Similar movies Sadie Thompson (1928), Along Came Auntie (1926), Civilization (1916), Huddle (1932), The Wrath of the Gods (1914) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keys of the Righteous is a surviving 1918 American silent drama film directed by Jerome Storm and written by C. Gardner Sullivan. The film stars Enid Bennett, Earle Rodney, George Nichols, Josef Swickard, Karl Formes, and Gertrude Claire. The film was released on February 18, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.
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Preservation status
A print exists in the Library of Congress collection.
Reception
Like many American films of the time, Keys of the Righteous was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 4, the striking of man on head with cane, closeup of two men exchanging glances regarding young woman, all dance hall scenes up to time young woman is seen at table with father, man with arm around young woman at table in cabaret, stout woman talking to young woman at table with father, woman soliciting man at door of saloon, the intertitle "Leave me alone, I'm broke", Reel 5, two intertitles "A charge which if proven" etc. and "If you father was looking for you there" etc., and all scenes of woman derelicts before judge at bar.
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