Black Oxen (1924)
Melodrama | January 1924
According to the 25 Aug 1923 Camera, Harry Weil spent two days in San Francisco, CA, looking for locations.
The 22 Sep 1923 Camera reported that the film company would arrive in San Francisco that week to photograph dock and waterfront scenes. Gertrude Franklin Atherton, whose best-selling novel was the source of the film, would be in town to confer with director Frank Lloyd.
A follow-up item a week later in the 29 Sep 1923 Camera mentioned that the company “started work Monday morning on the docks and will spend some little time in San Francisco, as many of the scenes ... are laid here.” However, the following week, the 6 Oct 1923 Camera noted that the principal actors, plus “about a hundred local extras,” finished the dock scene in one day and promptly returned to Los Angeles.
As noted by the 15 Dec 1923 Camera, Black Oxen was set to have its world premiere on 29 Dec 1923 at San Francisco's Warfield Theater, to honor Gertrude Franklin Atherton, the home-town author of the novel on which the film was based, ...
According to the 25 Aug 1923 Camera, Harry Weil spent two days in San Francisco, CA, looking for locations.
The 22 Sep 1923 Camera reported that the film company would arrive in San Francisco that week to photograph dock and waterfront scenes. Gertrude Franklin Atherton, whose best-selling novel was the source of the film, would be in town to confer with director Frank Lloyd.
A follow-up item a week later in the 29 Sep 1923 Camera mentioned that the company “started work Monday morning on the docks and will spend some little time in San Francisco, as many of the scenes ... are laid here.” However, the following week, the 6 Oct 1923 Camera noted that the principal actors, plus “about a hundred local extras,” finished the dock scene in one day and promptly returned to Los Angeles.
As noted by the 15 Dec 1923 Camera, Black Oxen was set to have its world premiere on 29 Dec 1923 at San Francisco's Warfield Theater, to honor Gertrude Franklin Atherton, the home-town author of the novel on which the film was based,
Playwright Lee Clavering falls in love with a mysterious and beautiful woman. She reveals herself as Austrian Countess Zattiany, formerly New York socialite Mary Ogden, who, by medical means, has had her youth restored. Lee plans to marry the countess, but a former admirer of hers intervenes, points out her folly, and escorts her back to Austria. Lee finds romance with flapper Janet ...
Playwright Lee Clavering falls in love with a mysterious and beautiful woman. She reveals herself as Austrian Countess Zattiany, formerly New York socialite Mary Ogden, who, by medical means, has had her youth restored. Lee plans to marry the countess, but a former admirer of hers intervenes, points out her folly, and escorts her back to Austria. Lee finds romance with flapper Janet Oglethorpe.
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