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Genre
  
Adventure

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Written by
  
Roy McCardell

Writer
  
Roy L. McCardell

The Diamond from the Sky The Diamond from the Sky Wikipedia


Language
  
Silent with English intertitles

Director
  
Jacques Jaccard William Desmond Taylor

Release date
  
May 3, 1915

Directors
  
William Desmond Taylor, Jacques Jaccard

Sequel
  
Sequel to the Diamond from the Sky

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Genres
  
Silent film, Short Film, Adventure Film, Indie film, Black-and-white

Cast
  
Lottie Pickford
,
Charlotte Burton
,
William Russell
,
Irving Cummings
,
Jack Hoxie

The Diamond from the Sky is a 1915 American silent adventure film serial starring Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings, and William Russell, and directed by Jacques Jaccard and William Desmond Taylor.

Contents

It is considered to be a lost film.

Plot

The prologue, in the serial's first episode, "A Heritage of Hate", depicts the finding of “The Diamond From the Sky” which later becomes the heirloom of the Stanley family, while the two reels of the first chapter show the intense rivalry between Colonel Arthur Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, Virginia aristocrats and descendants of Lord Arthur Stanley, two hundred years later.

When a girl is born to the young wife of Colonel Arthur Stanley, the latter, to retain an earldom and “The Diamond From the Sky,” buys a new born Gypsy baby boy and substitutes it for his own babe. Judge Lamar Stanley visits Colonel Arthur Stanley’s home to see the child just as Hagar, the gypsy woman, bursts into the room to demand her boy, and the colonel falls unconscious across the library table.

Cast

  • Lottie Pickford as Esther Stanley, the Gypsy Heroine. The role was originally offered to her sister Mary Pickford.
  • Irving Cummings as Arthur Stanley II
  • William Russell as Blair Stanley
  • Charlotte Burton as Vivian Marston
  • Eugenie Forde as Hagar Harding
  • George Periolat as Luke Lovell
  • Orral Humphrey as Marmaduke Smythe
  • William Tedmarsh as Quabba, the Hunchback
  • Hart Hoxie as Matt Hardigan
  • George Field
  • Rhea Mitchell
  • Nell Franzen
  • Roy Stewart
  • Charles Watt

    • Chapter titles

    1. A Heritage of Hate
    2. An Eye For An Eye
    3. The Silent Witness
    4. The Prodigal's Progress
    5. For The Sake of A False Friend
    6. Shadows at Sunrise
    7. The Fox and The Pig
    8. A Mind In The Past
    9. A Runaway Match
    10. Old Foes With New Faces
    11. The Web of Destiny
    12. To The Highest Bidder
    13. The Man In The Mask
    14. For Love And Money
    15. Desperate Chances
    16. The Path of Peril
    17. The King of Diamonds and the Queen of Hearts
    18. The Charm Against Harm
    19. Fire, Fury And Confusion
    20. The Soul Stranglers
    21. The Lion's Bride
    22. The Rose In The Dust
    23. The Double Cross
    24. The Mad Millionaire
    25. A House of Cards
    26. The Garden of The Gods
    27. Mine Own People
    28. On the Wings of the Morning
    29. A Deal With Destiny
    30. The American Earl

    Production

    The story was purposely left unfinished, in the same manner as The Million Dollar Mystery. A prize of $5,000 was offered for its completion, which was won by Terry Ramsaye.

    References

    The Diamond from the Sky Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Diamond from the Sky IMDb