Borderland (1922)
Melodrama, Fantasy | 30 July 1922
Cast:
Agnes Ayres, Milton Sills, Fred Huntley [ More ]Director:
Paul PowellWriter:
Beulah Marie DixCinematographer:
Harry PerryProduction Company:
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.The working title for this film was Between the Worlds. Referring to it by that title, an item in the 10 April 1922 Paramount Pep noted that Paul Powell was set to direct Agnes Ayres in the film, written by Beulah Marie Dix. Another item in the same issue identified the picture by its revised title, Borderland, and announced that filming had begun at Paramount Pictures’ studio in Hollywood, CA. The following month, a 20 May 1922 Camera brief stated that shooting was scheduled to end that week. However, a production chart in the 10 June 1922 issue indicated that principal photography was scheduled to conclude that week. Final scenes entailed Agnes Ayres dressing as a ghost and “much complicated double exposure” camerawork excecuted by director of photography Harry Perry, according to an article in the 17 June 1922 Moving Picture World.
Child actors “Baby Muriel McCormac” and May Giracci were cast in the picture, as noted in the 6 May 1922 Camera and 13 May 1922 Motion Picture News.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this picture on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021. ...
The working title for this film was Between the Worlds. Referring to it by that title, an item in the 10 April 1922 Paramount Pep noted that Paul Powell was set to direct Agnes Ayres in the film, written by Beulah Marie Dix. Another item in the same issue identified the picture by its revised title, Borderland, and announced that filming had begun at Paramount Pictures’ studio in Hollywood, CA. The following month, a 20 May 1922 Camera brief stated that shooting was scheduled to end that week. However, a production chart in the 10 June 1922 issue indicated that principal photography was scheduled to conclude that week. Final scenes entailed Agnes Ayres dressing as a ghost and “much complicated double exposure” camerawork excecuted by director of photography Harry Perry, according to an article in the 17 June 1922 Moving Picture World.
Child actors “Baby Muriel McCormac” and May Giracci were cast in the picture, as noted in the 6 May 1922 Camera and 13 May 1922 Motion Picture News.
The National Film Preservation Board (NFPB) included this picture on its list of Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films as of February 2021.
Dora, a poor soul wandering through space looking for her lost child, stops at the Well at the World's End where she sees Edith, her great-grandniece, about to ruin her life just as she herself did seventy years before, by abandoning her husband and child for another man. Acting through an aging servant, Dora effects a reconciliation between Edith and her husband, and Dora herself is at last reunited with her lost ...
Dora, a poor soul wandering through space looking for her lost child, stops at the Well at the World's End where she sees Edith, her great-grandniece, about to ruin her life just as she herself did seventy years before, by abandoning her husband and child for another man. Acting through an aging servant, Dora effects a reconciliation between Edith and her husband, and Dora herself is at last reunited with her lost child.
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