Mortmain (film)

Mortmain is a five-part 1915 Vitagraph mystery drama film, directed bye Theodore Marston.[1] Reviewer Lynde Denig said it was a mystery drama with a scientific background that "comes pretty close to being a model of motion picture craftsmanship." The film was adapted from a story by Arthur Train.[2][3] The New York Clipper called it remindful of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe.[4] It stars Robert Edeson. Marguerite Bertsch wrote the screenplay. The story involves the grafting of one man's hand to replace a man's who had his crushed.[5] The consequences are haunting.[2] The film is presumed lost.[6]

It was advertised as a "Medical Mystery".[7] An image used in advertising material features a creepy black and white hand with the word "MORT" but on it.[8] Censors blocked the film from being shown in Philadelphia and Chicago.[9]

Cast
  • Robert Edeson as Mortmain
  • Donald Hall as Gordon Russell
  • Edward Elkas as Flaggs
  • Joseph Weber as Flynt
  • Muriel Ostriche as Bella Forsythe
  • Karin Norman as Miss Fickles
  • James Morrison as Tom Forsythe
  • J. Herbert Frank as Doctor Pennison Crisp
  • Gladden James as Scalscope
  • Roland Osborne as Mortmain’s butler
  • Helen Pillsbury as a society lady[6]

See also

References
  1. "Mortmain". September 7, 1915 – via memory.loc.gov.
  2. "Moving Picture World and View Photographer". World Photographic Publishing Company. September 7, 1915 – via Google Books.
  3. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37346/37346-h/37346-h.htm
  4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvxcrw4d
  5. "Motion Picture Story Magazine". Macfadden-Bartell. September 7, 1915 – via Google Books.
  6. "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com.
  7. https://www.newspapers.com/article/2251859/mortmain_harrisburg_pennsylvania/
  8. "MORTMAIN (1915) by Theodore Marston, Cinefania". www.cinefania.com.
  9. "Mortmain (1915)" – via letterboxd.com.
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