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The Pulse of Life
(1917) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Rex Ingram

Cast: Gypsy Harte [Lisetta], Wedgewood Nowell [Guido Serrani], Dorothy Barrett [Buckety Sue], Molly Malone [Molly Capels], Nicholas Dunaew (Nick Dunaew) [Domenic], Millard K. Wilson [Standford Graham], Albert MacQuarrie [‘Dago’ Joe], Edward Brown [Luigi Maseto], Seymour Hastings [Hasting Capels], William Dyer [the fish merchant]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by Rex Ingram, from a screen story by E. Magnus Ingleton. Cinematography by Duke Hayward. / © 9 March 1917 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP10342]. Released 2 April 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Humanity.

Drama: Suspense.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 25 December 2012.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 27 : Website-AFI.