The Unafraid (1915)
Drama | 1 April 1915
Cast:
Rita Jolivet, House Peters, Page Peters [ More ]Director:
Cecil B. DeMilleEditor:
Cecil B. DeMilleProduction Designer:
Wilfred BucklandProduction Company:
Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co.The Unafraid was popular French stage actress Rita Jolivet's first film, according to the 10 April 1915 Motion Picture News. Four months earlier, the 23 January 1915 Variety had announced that the Lasky organization had brought her from New York to its Hollywood studios in California to play the lead.
Company executive Samuel Goldfish, known better as Samuel Goldwyn, predicted a 1 March 1915 release for the film in the 27 February 1915 Motography, but it was not issued until a month later.
The 9 April 1915 Variety mentioned that the film was privately screened the previous week at the Broadway Theatre in New York under the title The Unexpected, but it was then corrected to The Unafraid when the film opened there a day or two later. The movie opened in Great Britain four months later, on 23 August, according to the 21 August 1915 Pictures and the Picturegoers.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant. ...
The Unafraid was popular French stage actress Rita Jolivet's first film, according to the 10 April 1915 Motion Picture News. Four months earlier, the 23 January 1915 Variety had announced that the Lasky organization had brought her from New York to its Hollywood studios in California to play the lead.
Company executive Samuel Goldfish, known better as Samuel Goldwyn, predicted a 1 March 1915 release for the film in the 27 February 1915 Motography, but it was not issued until a month later.
The 9 April 1915 Variety mentioned that the film was privately screened the previous week at the Broadway Theatre in New York under the title The Unexpected, but it was then corrected to The Unafraid when the film opened there a day or two later. The movie opened in Great Britain four months later, on 23 August, according to the 21 August 1915 Pictures and the Picturegoers.
According to the Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, this film is extant.
During a vacation in Paris, France, American heiress Delight Warren falls in love with Michael Balsic, a dashing Montenegran nobleman on a secret mission for Austria, and fearlessly accompanies him to his own country for their impending wedding. As soon as she arrives, however, she is kidnapped by men sent by Count Stefan Balsic, Michael's brother. Stefan takes Delight to his castle and immediately forces her to marry him in a proper ceremony. Inevitably, when Michael tries to poison Stefan, Delight learns that Michael is a traitor to his country who had only wanted to marry her for her money, in order to buy weapons for a revolution, and that Stefan had kidnapped and married her to protect her name and virtue. Michael's men abduct her, but Stefan and his soldiers follow them to his brother's castle, where he defeats Michael in a duel to the death with chairs and candlesticks. Count Stefan tells his rescued bride that she is now free to return to America, but she, realizing that she loves him, answers, "I am at home here," and they ...
During a vacation in Paris, France, American heiress Delight Warren falls in love with Michael Balsic, a dashing Montenegran nobleman on a secret mission for Austria, and fearlessly accompanies him to his own country for their impending wedding. As soon as she arrives, however, she is kidnapped by men sent by Count Stefan Balsic, Michael's brother. Stefan takes Delight to his castle and immediately forces her to marry him in a proper ceremony. Inevitably, when Michael tries to poison Stefan, Delight learns that Michael is a traitor to his country who had only wanted to marry her for her money, in order to buy weapons for a revolution, and that Stefan had kidnapped and married her to protect her name and virtue. Michael's men abduct her, but Stefan and his soldiers follow them to his brother's castle, where he defeats Michael in a duel to the death with chairs and candlesticks. Count Stefan tells his rescued bride that she is now free to return to America, but she, realizing that she loves him, answers, "I am at home here," and they embrace.
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