fiction.wikisort.org - Movie

Men and Women is a lost 1925 American silent drama film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by William C. deMille and starred Richard Dix, Claire Adams, and Neil Hamilton. It is based on a play, Men and Women, written years earlier by David Belasco and Henry Churchill de Mille, father of the director.[1][2][3]

Men and Women
Lobby card
Directed by	William C. deMille
Written by	Clara Beranger (scenario)
Based on	Men and Women by David Belasco and Henry Churchill de Mille
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Starring	Richard Dix Claire Adams
Cinematography	L. Guy Wilky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	March 23, 1925 (1925-03-23)
Running time	60 minutes; six reels (6,223 feet)
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

PLOT

Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years' imprisonment. While in jail his wife dies and his little daughter, Agnes, is placed in a convent. At the expiration of his sentence, Stevens locates his daughter and settles in Arizona, assuming the name of Stephen Rodman.

Cast

• Richard Dix as Will Prescott
• Claire Adams as Agnes Prescott
• Neil Hamilton as Ned Seabury
• Henry Stephenson as Arnold Kirke
• Robert Edeson as Israel Cohen
• Flora Finch as Kate

Production

Development

A 1914 Biograph film with the same name based on the same play still exists. It was directed by James Kirkwood and starred Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Sweet and her future husband Marshall Neilan.[4]

References

External links

• Men and Women at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie

---