The Girl in the Dark

The Girl in the Dark is a 1918 American silent mystery film directed by Stuart Paton. The script was written by Albert Kenyon, based on the 1914 novel The Green Seal by Charles Edmonds Walk.[1][2]

The Girl in the Dark
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Directed byStuart Paton
Screenplay byAlbert Kenyon
Based onThe Green Seal
by Charles Edmonds Walk
StarringCarmel Myers
Ashton Dearholt
Frank Tokunaga
CinematographyDuke Hayward
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • March 4, 1918 (1918-03-04)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Plot

A young woman named Lois who was branded with Chinese letters on her shoulder as a baby finds herself attracting nefarious attention as she grows older.[3]

Cast

Preservation

With no copies of The Girl in the Dark held in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

References

  1. America Film Institute Staff; Gevinson, Alan; Afi, American Film; Institute, American Film (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209640.
  2. Goble, Alan (2011-09-08). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943.
  3. "Oriental Film at the Bank". The Akron Beacon Journal. 8 Mar 1918. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  4. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Girl in the Dark


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