The Lure is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Alice Guy Blaché starring James O'Neill, Fraunie Fraunholz, Kirah Markham, and Claire Whitney.[1] The Lure was an adaptation of a controversial play by George Scarborough that gives a sympathetic depiction of social pressures leading women into prostitution.[2][3]
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Directed by | Alice Guy Blaché |
Written by | Alice Guy Blaché |
Based on | The Lure by George Scarborough |
Starring | Claire Whitney James O'Neill |
Production company | Solax Studios |
Distributed by | World Film Corporation |
Release date | 1914 |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
With no copies of The Lure listed in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[1]
One of the few females prominent in the motion picture industry, Alice Guy-Blaché, directed The Lure (1914), an adaptation of a controversial play about young women being entrapped in a brothel; she stated that she took on the project after ....Guy reports that when the film came before a censorship board, one of the women on the committee defended it by saying, "The subject was offensive—I believe that only a woman could have treated it with such delicacy.
The Lure at IMDb
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