The Unguarded Hour (1925 film)

The Unguarded Hour
The Unguarded Hour
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Directed by	Lambert Hillyer
Written by	John W. Krafft; Joseph F. Poland; Margaretta Tuttle
Starring	Milton Sills; Doris Kenyon; Claude King
Cinematography	Roy Carpenter
Edited by	Arthur Tavares
Production; company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	November 22, 1925;
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Unguarded Hour is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, and Claude King.^[1] The film's sets were designed by the art director Milton Menasco.^[2]

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,^[3] Bryce Gilbert (King), business man, shows his daughter Virginia (Kenyon) the folly of an intended elopement with a youth. She goes to Italy and meets Duke Andrea d'Arona (Sills), a young and handsome man, who is puzzled by her jazzy American ways and doubts her character. Virginia is found with a certain male flirt in her room and misunderstood until it develops that the duke's sister (Cassinelli) has been misled by the male flirt and is listening in another room. The sister kills herself and the tragedy brings the duke and the young American woman to an understanding of their love.

Cast

Milton Sills as Andrea
Doris Kenyon as Virginia Gilbert
Claude King as Bryce Gilbert
Dolores Cassinelli as Duchess Bianca
Cornelius Keefe as Russell Van Alstyne
Jed Prouty as Gus O'Rorick, a Yeggman
Tammany Young as Another Yeggman
Charles Byer as Stelio
Lorna Duveen as Elena
Vivia Ogden as Annie, the Maid
J. Moy Bennett as Butler
Laura Wood as Virginia Gilbert's swimming double

Preservation

With no prints of The Unguarded Hour located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

References

^ Munden p. 748
^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Unguarded Hour at silentera.com
^ Smith, Sumner (December 5, 1925). "Through the Box Office Window: The Unguarded Hour; Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon in Emotional and Gripping Story that Should Please Fans". The Moving Picture World. 77 (5). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 481. Retrieved October 16, 2021. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Unguarded Hour

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.