Enoch Arden (1915)
Drama | 8 April 1915
Cast:
Alfred Paget, Lillian Gish, Wallace Reid [ More ]Director:
William Christy CabanneProduction Company:
Majestic Motion Picture Co.Filming was done in Hollywood and on the California coast, according to the 13 March 1915 Moving Picture World. The 17 April 1915 Motography praised the frequent use of close-ups in this three-person drama, which made the characters "more than mere images upon the screen," as well as the scenic effects on "a rocky coast with angry waves dashing wildly against it and leaping high in the air." The subtitles were a mix of "verse and prose, being taken from the [Tennyson] poem and fitted to the action."
TR-C Picture Corp. reissued this film in five reels in 1922.
This version of Enoch Arden was the third for D. W. Griffith and the second for Alfred Paget. Griffith directed the one-reel After Many Years from the same source for the Biograph Co. in 1908, then three years later directed a two-part 1911 film for Biograph called Enoch Arden, in which Alfred Paget played a shipwrecked sailor; it was reissued in 1916 (and is still extant). A four-reel British Enoch Arden was produced in 1914 by the Neptune Film Co.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant. ...
Filming was done in Hollywood and on the California coast, according to the 13 March 1915 Moving Picture World. The 17 April 1915 Motography praised the frequent use of close-ups in this three-person drama, which made the characters "more than mere images upon the screen," as well as the scenic effects on "a rocky coast with angry waves dashing wildly against it and leaping high in the air." The subtitles were a mix of "verse and prose, being taken from the [Tennyson] poem and fitted to the action."
TR-C Picture Corp. reissued this film in five reels in 1922.
This version of Enoch Arden was the third for D. W. Griffith and the second for Alfred Paget. Griffith directed the one-reel After Many Years from the same source for the Biograph Co. in 1908, then three years later directed a two-part 1911 film for Biograph called Enoch Arden, in which Alfred Paget played a shipwrecked sailor; it was reissued in 1916 (and is still extant). A four-reel British Enoch Arden was produced in 1914 by the Neptune Film Co.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.
Long ago in an English fishing village, the orphan Enoch Arden grows up with two close friends, Annie Lee and Philip Ray. Although both boys love her, Annie marries Enoch. Throughout the years, Philip remains a close friend to Enoch and Annie and their son and daughter. After a bad season of fishing, Enoch leaves to work on a ship to provide for his family. During the ten years Annie waits for Enoch's return, Philip, now wealthy, cares for her and sends the children through school. Finally, believing Enoch to be dead, Annie marries Philip. Meanwhile Enoch, who has been stranded on a desert isle after surviving a shipwreck, is rescued by a passing boat. He returns to his village as a gaunt, bearded figure in rags, and sees Annie and Philip happily married and his children grown. When one old woman recognizes him, he gets her promise to keep his visit a secret, then leaves without letting his family know he was there. Years later, he dies with a smile on the ...
Long ago in an English fishing village, the orphan Enoch Arden grows up with two close friends, Annie Lee and Philip Ray. Although both boys love her, Annie marries Enoch. Throughout the years, Philip remains a close friend to Enoch and Annie and their son and daughter. After a bad season of fishing, Enoch leaves to work on a ship to provide for his family. During the ten years Annie waits for Enoch's return, Philip, now wealthy, cares for her and sends the children through school. Finally, believing Enoch to be dead, Annie marries Philip. Meanwhile Enoch, who has been stranded on a desert isle after surviving a shipwreck, is rescued by a passing boat. He returns to his village as a gaunt, bearded figure in rags, and sees Annie and Philip happily married and his children grown. When one old woman recognizes him, he gets her promise to keep his visit a secret, then leaves without letting his family know he was there. Years later, he dies with a smile on the seashore.
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