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Smouldering fires / Universal Pictures ; Carl Laemmle presents ; director, Clarence Brown ; screenplay, Sada Cowan, Howard Higgin, Melville Brown ; titles, Dwinelle Benthall ; story, Margaret Deland, Sada Cowan, Howard Higgin.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Alpha video classics
- Silent classics collection
- Language:
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Drama.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Businesswomen.
- Businesswomen--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Fiction films.
- Silent films.
- Romance films.
- Melodramas (Motion pictures)
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Smoldering fires
- Place of Publication:
- Narberth, PA : Alpha Video, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Silent film with English intertitles and added musical accompaniment.
- System Details:
- DVD-R; all regions; Dolby Digital stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby Digital
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Jane Vale is a tough-as-nails businesswoman who lives by her late father's edict: "Let no man be necessary to you." When Robert Elliot, an employee twenty years her junior, questions Jane's authority, her immediate response is to fire him. But something about the young man's spirit (and handsome good looks) makes her go against her father's credo. She gives him a job as her personal secretary. Robert becomes the butt of jokes among the staff, who believe him to be Jane's "pet." In order to end the teasing, Robert insists Jane marry him. The smitten woman immediately accepts, even though she knows Robert doesn't really love her. Their humdrum marriage is interrupted by the arrival of Jane's attractive, much-younger sister Dorothy, home from college. Robert finds himself drawn to a girl closer to his age, and the mutual attraction between the two does not go unnoticed by Jane. She realizes she must let Robert go, but she may not be able to let the man she loves walk out of her life so easily.
- An ahead-of-its-time silent melodrama about a business woman's affair with a much younger employee, from famed director Clarence Brown.
- Participant:
- Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall, Wanda Hawley, Helen Lynch, George Cooper, Bert Roach, Billy Gould, Rolfe Sedan, Jack McDonald, William Orlamond, Robert Mack, Frank Newberg.
- Credits:
- Photographer, Jackson Rose ; film editor, Edward Schroeder ; art director, Leo E. Kuter.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1925.
- This disc is expected to play back in DVD video "play only" devices, and may not play in other DVD devices, including recorders and PC drives.
- Full screen (1.33:1).
- Contains:
- Container of: Smouldering fires (Motion picture)
- OCLC:
- 1196086147
- Publisher Number:
- 089218829399
- ALP 8293D Alpha Video
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