The Lure is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Alice Guy Blaché starring James O'Neill, Fraunie Fraunholz, Kirah Markham, and Claire Whitney.[1] The Lure was an adaptation of a controversial play by George Scarborough that gives a sympathetic depiction of social pressures leading women into prostitution.[2][3]
| The Lure | |
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| Directed by | Alice Guy Blaché |
| Written by | Alice Guy Blaché |
| Based on | The Lure by George Scarborough |
| Starring | Claire Whitney James O'Neill |
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| Distributed by | World Film Corporation |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Cast edit
- James O'Neill
- Fraunie Fraunholz (credited as Fraunie Fraunholtz)
- Kirah Markham
- Claire Whitney
- Wallace Scott
- Bernard Daly
- Lola May
- Lucia Moore
Preservation edit
With no copies of The Lure listed in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: The Lure at silentera.com
- ^ "The Lure [1914], a celebrated play of the Shubert tour, with Julia Moore, for World."
- ^ Campbell, Russell (2006). Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-299-21250-5.
One of the few females prominent in the motion picture industry, Alice Guy-Blaché, directed The Lure (1914), an adaptation of a controversial play about young women being entrapped in a brothel; she stated that she took on the project after ....Guy reports that when the film came before a censorship board, one of the women on the committee defended it by saying, "The subject was offensive—I believe that only a woman could have treated it with such delicacy.
- ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Lure
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