The Broken Melody (1919 film)

The Broken Melody
Ad for the film from a 1919 issue of Exhibitors Herald
Directed byWilliam P.S. Earle
Written byOuida Bergère
Dorothy Farnum
Produced byLewis J. Selznick
StarringEugene O'Brien
Lucy Cotton
Corinne Barker
CinematographyJohn W. Brown
Edited byW. Duncan Mansfield
Production
company
Distributed bySelect Pictures Corp.
Release date
  • December 14, 1919 (1919-12-14)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Broken Melody is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William P.S. Earle and starring Eugene O'Brien, Lucy Cotton and Corinne Barker.[1] Location shooting for the film was done in Greenwich Village in New York City.[2]

Plot

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of The Broken Melody located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.[3] In October of 2019, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.[2]

References

  1. ^ Connelly p.327
  2. ^ a b "The Broken Melody". afi.com. Retrieved April 23, 2024.
  3. ^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: The Broken Melody". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 23, 2024.

Bibliography

  • Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
  • Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.


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