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The Girl Who Came Back

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Produced by
  
Jesse L. Lasky

Genres
  
Silent film, Drama film

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Robert G. Vignola

Cinematography
  
Charles Schoenbaum

Duration
  


Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
September 8, 1918 (1918-09-08)

Based on
  
The Girl Who Came Back  by C. M. S. McLellan

Writer
  
Beulah Marie Dix (adaptation), C.M.S. McLellan (play)

People also search for
  
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Cast
  
Theodore Roberts
(Michael Hartner),
Ethel Clayton
(Lois Hartner),
Elliott Dexter
(State Sen George Bayard),
James Neill
(Gov Burton),
Charles West
(Ralph Burton)

The Girl Who Came Back is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Robert G. Vignola and written by Beulah Marie Dix based upon the play by C. M. S. McLellan. The film stars Ethel Clayton, Elliott Dexter, Theodore Roberts, James Neill, Charles West, and Marcia Manon. The film was released on September 8, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.

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Plot

As described in a film magazine, Lois Hartner (Clayton), daughter of the thief Michael "Old Hartner" (Roberts), is saved from death in a shipwreck by George Bayard (Dexter), a state senator and social reformer. Her father plans to rob the Bayard house of a valuable string of pearls. Lois is charged with the duty of obtaining the pearls, but during the operation George surprises her. Ralph Burton (West), scapegrace brother-in-law of George, takes the pearls while George is absent from the room, and George believes Lois has taken them. She has determined to give up the criminal life she was living and goes to the West. After Ralph confesses to the theft, George finds her and makes her his wife.

Cast

  • Ethel Clayton as Lois Hartner
  • Elliott Dexter as State Sen. George Bayard
  • Theodore Roberts as Michael Hartner
  • James Neill as Gov. Burton
  • Charles West as Ralph Burton
  • Marcia Manon as Dorothy Burton
  • Jack Brammall as Doyle
  • Jane Wolfe as Mrs. Walters
  • John McKinnon as Bayard's Butler
  • Pansy Perry as Burton's Maid

    • Preservation status

  • This film is preserved in the Filmmuseum Nederland or EYE Institut, Netherlands.

    • Reception

    Like many American films of the time, The Girl Who Came Back was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required a cut, in Reel 2, of two scenes of young woman turning combination of safe where light plays on her hands.

    References

    The Girl Who Came Back Wikipedia
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    The Girl Who Came Back IMDb