A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Erich von Stroheim (left, seated). Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Henry B. Walthall [Captain Arling / Oswald], Mary Alden [Helen Arling], Loretta Blake [Regina], Nigel de Brulier, Juanita Archer, Thomas Jefferson, Erich von Stroheim [white-haired executive]

Majestic Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [A Majestic Masterpicture; A Mutual Masterpicture]. / Produced by D.W. Griffith. Scenario by [?] Russell E. Smith and/or John Emerson?, from the play Genganere (Ghosts) by Henrik Ibsen. Wardrobe assistant, Erich von Stroheim. Assistant director, George Siegmann. / Released June 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was reedited (with new intertitles) and rereleased in 1919 as The Curse on State Rights basis by Exhibitor’s Film Exchange (which had previously announced the film to be released under the title The Wreck).

Drama: Social.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1547.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Authors: Henrik Ibsen - Medical: Disease: Venereal

Listing updated: 5 October 2014.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1547; Everson-American p. 369; Limbacher-Feature p. 92; Tarbox-Lost pp. 227, 229, 247 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.