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The Rescue (1917 film)

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Genre
  
Drama

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Distributed by
  
Universal Studios


Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
July 30, 1917 (1917-07-30)

Writer
  
Hugh McNair Kahler (story), Ida May Park

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Genres
  
Drama, Silent film, Black-and-white

Cast
  

The Rescue is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Ida May Park and starring Lon Chaney. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film.

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, Anne Wetherall (Phillips) returns to the stage after the court grants her a divorce. She returns to her former home when she finds out that her younger sister Betty (Malone) is throwing herself on her ex-husband Kent (Stowell). Her fight to win back her man from Betty ends up at the justice of the peace, where she an Kent are remarried. There is a subplot involving Kent's visits to a sanitarium on a houseboat which arise jealousy in Anne.

Cast

  • Dorothy Phillips - Anne Wetherall
  • William Stowell - Kent Wetherall
  • Lon Chaney - Thomas Holland
  • Gretchen Lederer - Nell Jerrold
  • Molly Malone - Betty Jerrold
  • Claire Du Brey - Henriette
  • Gertrude Astor - Mrs. Hendricks
  • References

    The Rescue (1917 film) Wikipedia
    The Rescue (1917 film) IMDb


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