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Director
  
Victor Sjostrom

Story by
  
Selma Lagerlof

7.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Producer
  
Louis B. Mayer

Country
  
United States

The Tower of Lies movie poster

Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Writer
  
Agnes Christine Johnston
,
Max Marcin

Release date
  
October 11, 1925 (1925-10-11) (United States)

Based on
  
The Emperor of Portugallia   by Selma Lagerlof

Genres
  
Silent film, Drama, Melodrama, Family Drama

Cast
  
Norma Shearer
(Glory/Goldie),
Lon Chaney
(Jan),
Ian Keith
(Lars),
Claire McDowell
(Katrina),
William Haines
(August),
David Torrence
(Eric)

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The Tower of Lies (1925) was an American silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström based upon Selma Lagerlöf's novel The Emperor of Portugallia (1914). Released one year after He Who Gets Slapped, the film marks the second collaboration between Sjöström, Lon Chaney and Norma Shearer. Also starring are William Haines, Ian Keith and Lew Cody.

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Plot

Jan (Lon Chaney) is a Swedish farmer and Glory (Norma Shearer) is his beloved daughter, who saves him from bankruptcy by eloping to the big city with their rapacious landlord, driving Jan to madness.

Cast

  • Norma Shearer - Glory or Goldie
  • Lon Chaney - Jan
  • Ian Keith - Lars
  • Claire McDowell - Katrina
  • William Haines - August
  • David Torrence - Eric
  • Edward Connelly - Curate
  • Lew Cody-
  • Mary Jane Irving - Little Girl
  • Bodil Rosing - Midwife
  • Anne Schaefer - Helma
  • Adele Watson - Farmer's Wife
  • Leo White - Peddler

    • Preservation status

    The film is now considered a lost film.

    References

    The Tower of Lies Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Tower of Lies IMDb The Tower of Lies themoviedb.org