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Open Your Eyes
Open Your Eyes
	Advertising for Open Your Eye from Duluth Herald (January 28, 1922).
Directed by	Gilbert P. Hamilton
Written by	C.B. Minty; Sam Warner
Starring	Faire Binney; Mrs. Joupert; Jack Hopkins; Halbert Brown; Eddie Beryll; Emily Marceau; Viola Allen; Ben Lyon; Gaston Glass
Production; companies	State Health Films Inc.; Warner Bros.
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	May 1919;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Open Your Eyes is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Gilbert P. Hamilton, and starring Faire Binney, Mrs. Joupert, Jack Hopkins, Halbert Brown, Eddie Beryll, Emily Marceau, Viola Allen, Ben Lyon, and Gaston Glass. Intended to warn about venereal disease and shot in The Bronx in 1917,^[1] the film was given a general release by Warner Bros. in May 1919.^[2]^[3]^[4] Jack L. Warner, one of the founders of Warner Bros., has a cameo appearance as a World War I soldier.

Plot

Cast

Faire Binney as Kitty Walton
Mrs. Joupert as Mrs. Walton
Jack Hopkins as Mr. Walton
Halbert Brown as Dr. Bennett
Eddie Beryll as Eddie Samson
Emily Marceau as Frances Forrester
Viola Allen as Mrs. Forrester
Ben Lyon as Harold Connors
Gaston Glass
Jack L. Warner as Soldier

Reception

As a sex hygiene film, Open Your Eyes was subject to censorship restrictions and often was shown as an adults only film, but continued to be shown as an exploitation film. In 1927, the New Jersey branch of the Motion Picture Theater Owners of America warned theaters not to show this "salacious and risqué" film, citing common decency and the risk that it would bring calls for censorship.^[5]