The Great Shadow (film)

The Great Shadow
Directed byHarley Knoles
Written byRudolph Berliner
Eve Unsell
Produced byLewis J. Selznick
George Brownridge
StarringTyrone Power Sr.
Donald Hall
Dorothy Bernard
CinematographyGeorge Coudert
Philip Hatkin
Edited byRalph Ince
Production
company
Adanac Producing Company
Distributed bySelznick Distributing Corporation
Release date
  • April 21, 1920 (1920-04-21)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Great Shadow is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Tyrone Power Sr., Donald Hall and Dorothy Bernard.[1]

The making of the film is the subject of the Canadian play of the same name, written by Alex Poch-Golden.[2]

Plot

Jim McDonald, the head of a union, struggles against a group of Bolsheviks led by Klimoff. A strike is called and McDonald's child is killed due to sabotage. Elsie, daughter of the capitalist Donald Alexander, is kidnapped by the Bolsheviks, but is saved by her lover, a secret agent.[3]

Cast

Production

The film was sponsored by the Canadian Reconstruction Association. A Vickers factory in Montreal and a film studio in Trenton, Ontario were used for filming. Union members at the factory were used as unpaid extras.[3]

References

  1. ^ Connelly p.100
  2. ^ "4th Line Theatre opens 2022 season with The Great Shadow". thepeterboroughexaminer.com. 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
  3. ^ a b Khouri 2007, p. 44.

Works cited

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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