A Successful Adventure (1918)
Comedy-drama | 15 July 1918
Director:
Harry L. FranklinWriters:
Katharine Kavanaugh, June MathisProduction Company:
Metro Pictures Corp.The picture's working title was The Way to a Man's Heart. Referring to it by that name, a 25 May 1918 Moving Picture World news brief announced that filming had begun. The following month, a 15 June 1918 Moving Picture World article noted that location shooting took place at “the Ruland estate” on Old White Plains Road in Mamaroneck, NY, whose sunken gardens were said to figure prominently as a setting.
The film opened on 15 July 1918 under the revised title, A Successful Adventure. It received a positive review in the 21 July 1918 Wid’s Daily, while the 3 August 1918 Motion Picture News pointed out the following flaw: “There is a bad slip in the tinting in one place. It causes the same action to appear as taking place both at night and at day time.”
According to the 27 July 1918 Moving Picture World, artist Ferdinand Earle created “sketches and oil pictures” for the film.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this picture on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021. ...
The picture's working title was The Way to a Man's Heart. Referring to it by that name, a 25 May 1918 Moving Picture World news brief announced that filming had begun. The following month, a 15 June 1918 Moving Picture World article noted that location shooting took place at “the Ruland estate” on Old White Plains Road in Mamaroneck, NY, whose sunken gardens were said to figure prominently as a setting.
The film opened on 15 July 1918 under the revised title, A Successful Adventure. It received a positive review in the 21 July 1918 Wid’s Daily, while the 3 August 1918 Motion Picture News pointed out the following flaw: “There is a bad slip in the tinting in one place. It causes the same action to appear as taking place both at night and at day time.”
According to the 27 July 1918 Moving Picture World, artist Ferdinand Earle created “sketches and oil pictures” for the film.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this picture on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
Brothers Lionel and Daniel Houston both love a Southern beauty named Virginia, and when she finally chooses Daniel, Lionel angrily moves North and turns his full attention to the acquisition of wealth. Virginia dies in childbirth, leaving Daniel to rear little Virginia alone. A rich aunt promises to leave Daniel a fortune provided he resume contact with his brother, whereupon Virginia, determined to effect a reconciliation between the two men, answers Lionel's ad for a cook and settles into his luxurious estate. There, Virginia meets and falls in love with Lionel's adopted son, Perry Arnold, but she faces stiff competition in Rose Mason, in reality a crook who hopes to obtain Lionel's secret stock market papers. In the end, Virginia not only unmasks Rose's plot and wins Perry, but reunites her long-estranged father and ...
Brothers Lionel and Daniel Houston both love a Southern beauty named Virginia, and when she finally chooses Daniel, Lionel angrily moves North and turns his full attention to the acquisition of wealth. Virginia dies in childbirth, leaving Daniel to rear little Virginia alone. A rich aunt promises to leave Daniel a fortune provided he resume contact with his brother, whereupon Virginia, determined to effect a reconciliation between the two men, answers Lionel's ad for a cook and settles into his luxurious estate. There, Virginia meets and falls in love with Lionel's adopted son, Perry Arnold, but she faces stiff competition in Rose Mason, in reality a crook who hopes to obtain Lionel's secret stock market papers. In the end, Virginia not only unmasks Rose's plot and wins Perry, but reunites her long-estranged father and uncle.
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