A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Cast: Elliott Dexter [Jack Brookfield], Winter Hall [Judge Prentice], Ruth Renick [Viola Campbell], Robert Cain [Frank Hardmuth], Edward Sutherland [Clay Whipple], Mary Alden [Helen Whipple], Fred Turner [Lew Ellinger], Genevieve Blinn [Mrs. Campbell], Charles West [Tom Denning], L.M. Wells [Judge Henderson], Clarence Geldert [Colonel Bailey], Jim Blackwell [Harvey]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [A Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Julia Crawford Ivers, from the play The Witching Hour by Augustus Thomas. Assistant director, Frank O’Connor. Cinematography by James C. Van Trees. Presented by Jesse L. Lasky. / © 9 February 1921 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP16139]. Premiered circa 27 February 1921 at the Rialto Theatre in New York, New York. General release, 10 April 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The play was previously filmed as The Witching Hour (1916). The play was subsequently filmed as The Witching Hour (1934).

Drama: Mystery.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Murder - Death: Murder - Law: Trials - Politicians

Listing updated: 27 June 2023.

References: Paris-Brooks p. 147 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.