Prunella (1918 film)
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Director Maurice Tourneur Screenplay Charles Maigne Country United States | 6.6/10 IMDb Genre Romance Duration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Language Silent
English intertitles Release date June 2, 1918 Based on Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden
by Granville Barker and Laurence Housman Writer Harley Granville-Barker (play), Laurence Housman (play), Charles Maigne Cast Marguerite Clark, Marcia Harris, Nora Cecil, Henry Leone Story by Harley Granville-Barker, Laurence Housman Similar movies The Blue Bird (1918), The Wishing Ring (1914), A Girls Folly (1917), Lorna Doone (1922), The Last of the Mohicans (1920) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prunella is a 1918 American silent romantic fantasy film directed by Maurice Tourneur. The film is based on the 1906 play Prunella, or, Love in a Dutch Garden by Laurence Housman and Harley Granville-Barker, and stars Marguerite Clark in the title role. Clark also starred in the 1913 Winthrop Ames produced Broadway stage production on which the film is based. The majority of the film is considered lost, with only fragments still in existence.
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Plot
As described in a film magazine, Prunella (Clark), who lives in a garden with her three aunts Prim (Berwin), Prude (Harris) and Privacy (Cecil), is carefully guarded from the outside world until the day a troupe of travelling players comes to town. Pierrot (Raucourt), the leader, creeps into the garden and captivates Prunella's heart. She runs off with him and becomes his Pierrette. For two years they wander from country to country. Pierrot tires of his marriage vows and runs away. He finds what a miserable thing life is without her, and he returns to the Dutch gardens and finds her, is forgiven, and they live on, presumably in blissful happiness.
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Prunella (1918 film) WikipediaPrunella (1918 film) IMDb