The Green Temptation

The Green Temptation
The Green Temptation
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Directed by	William Desmond Taylor
Written by	Julia Crawford Ivers (scenario); Monte Katterjohn (scenario)
Based on	"The Noose"; by Constance Lindsay Skinner
Produced by	Adolph Zukor; Jesse Lasky
Starring	Betty Compson; Theodore Kosloff
Cinematography	James Van Trees
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	April 2, 1922;
Running time	60 minutes; 6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Green Temptation is a lost^[1] 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Betty Compson.^[2]^[3] It was written by Julia Crawford Ivers and Monte Katterjohn based upon the short story "The Noose" by Constance Lindsay Skinner.

Plot edit

Betty plays a girl who is involved in the Paris criminal underworld. During World War I she becomes a wartime Red Cross nurse and after the war leaves for America for a new start in life. There she meets an old wartime colleague (Kosloff), a criminal who is conniving to steal a valuable jewel called 'The Green Temptation'. Kosloff wants Betty to help him steal the jewel and when she balks he threatens to reveal her sordid past to her new American friends. Scotland Yard detective (Mahlon Hamilton), probably hired to protect the jewel, is sweet on Betty and kills Kosloff when he tries to steal the jewel.

The film has a similarity to von Stroheim's Foolish Wives released that same year.