Something Different (1920)
Drama | December 1920
Cast:
Constance Binney, Lucy Fox, Ward Crane [ More ]Director:
R. William NeillWriter:
Kathryne StuartProduction Designer:
Robert M. HaasProduction Company:
Realart Pictures Corp.The working title for this film was Calderon’s Prisoner, after the 1903 novel by Alice Duer Miller upon which it was based. Location shooting took place in Havana, Cuba, beginning in August 1920, according to an item in the 7 November 1920 [Bristol, TN] Bristol Herald Courier. The 29 September 1920 [Hanford, CA] Hanford Morning Journal, which referred to the film by the revised title of Something Different, announced that lead actress Constance Binney had just returned from Cuba. The actress was quoted in the Bristol Herald Courier as saying that shooting in Cuba had been confined to the early morning and evening hours due to the extreme heat. Interior filming resumed in the U.S. and was completed in November 1920. The 27 November 1920 Exhibitors Herald noted that production had shut down temporarily when actor Ward Crane suffered an illness.
William Roselle and Hedda Hopper (referred to as Mrs. DeWolf Hopper) were named as cast members in the 30 October 1920 Exhibitors Herald.
Theatrical release occurred in late December 1920, although the 8 January 1921 Motion Picture News listed the film as one of three January 1921 releases from Realart Pictures Corp.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included the picture on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021. ...
The working title for this film was Calderon’s Prisoner, after the 1903 novel by Alice Duer Miller upon which it was based. Location shooting took place in Havana, Cuba, beginning in August 1920, according to an item in the 7 November 1920 [Bristol, TN] Bristol Herald Courier. The 29 September 1920 [Hanford, CA] Hanford Morning Journal, which referred to the film by the revised title of Something Different, announced that lead actress Constance Binney had just returned from Cuba. The actress was quoted in the Bristol Herald Courier as saying that shooting in Cuba had been confined to the early morning and evening hours due to the extreme heat. Interior filming resumed in the U.S. and was completed in November 1920. The 27 November 1920 Exhibitors Herald noted that production had shut down temporarily when actor Ward Crane suffered an illness.
William Roselle and Hedda Hopper (referred to as Mrs. DeWolf Hopper) were named as cast members in the 30 October 1920 Exhibitors Herald.
Theatrical release occurred in late December 1920, although the 8 January 1921 Motion Picture News listed the film as one of three January 1921 releases from Realart Pictures Corp.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included the picture on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
Alicia Lea, an orphan and heiress being forced to marry for money, goes to visit her friend Rosa Vargas, who is married to a rich planter in Santiago, Cuba. Rosa's husband Don Luis Vargas is a revolutionary, hostile to the government headed by the president and his brother Don Mariano Calderon, commander of the army. When Alicia visits the fort with the Vargases, the garrison mutinies and Don Mariano's troops attack. Alicia is captured by Mariano but treated well, and, after she begs Mariano to spare Vargas's life, she is allowed to return to America. Later, in New York, Alicia meets Mariano, exiled from his country for allowing the political prisoners, including Vargas, to escape. Mariano and Alicia fall in ...
Alicia Lea, an orphan and heiress being forced to marry for money, goes to visit her friend Rosa Vargas, who is married to a rich planter in Santiago, Cuba. Rosa's husband Don Luis Vargas is a revolutionary, hostile to the government headed by the president and his brother Don Mariano Calderon, commander of the army. When Alicia visits the fort with the Vargases, the garrison mutinies and Don Mariano's troops attack. Alicia is captured by Mariano but treated well, and, after she begs Mariano to spare Vargas's life, she is allowed to return to America. Later, in New York, Alicia meets Mariano, exiled from his country for allowing the political prisoners, including Vargas, to escape. Mariano and Alicia fall in love.
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