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The Lie (1918 film)

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Producer
  
Adolph Zukor

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

Director
  
J. Searle Dawley

Genre
  
Drama

Language
  
Silent

Writer
  
Henry Arthur Jones
,
Charles Maigne

Release date
  
April 14, 1918

Cast
  
David Powell, Elsie Ferguson

Similar movies
  
Frankenstein (1910), The Mysterious Miss Terry (1917), Rescued from an Eagles Nest (1908), A Social Celebrity (1926), Brewsters Millions (1921)

The Lie is a 1918 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Artcraft Pictures, an affiliate of Paramount. J. Searle Dawley directed and stage star Elsie Ferguson starred in a story based on a 1914 play by Henry Arthur Jones and starring Margaret Illington. The film is now lost.

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Cast

  • Elsie Ferguson as Elinor Shale
  • David Powell as Gerald Forster
  • John L. Shine as Sir Robert Shale
  • Percy Marmont as Nol Dibdin
  • Charles Sutton as Hamp
  • Bertha Kent as Gibbard
  • Maude Turner Gordon as Lady Beachworth
  • Betty Howe as Lucy Shale

    • Reception

    Like many American films of the time, The Lie was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit for the film.

    References

    The Lie (1918 film) Wikipedia
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    The Lie (1918 film) IMDb


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