The Great Shadow (film)
The Great Shadow is a 1920 American silent drama film directed by Harley Knoles and starring Tyrone Power Sr., Donald Hall and Dorothy Bernard.[1]
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| Directed by | Harley Knoles |
| Written by | Rudolph Berliner Eve Unsell |
| Produced by | Lewis J. Selznick George Brownridge |
| Starring | Tyrone Power Sr. Donald Hall Dorothy Bernard |
| Cinematography | George Coudert Philip Hatkin |
| Edited by | Ralph Ince |
Production company | Adanac Producing Company |
| Distributed by | Selznick Distributing Corporation |
Release date | April 21, 1920 |
Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The making of the film is the subject of the Canadian play of the same name, written by Alex Poch-Golden.[2]
Plot
Jim McDonald, the head of an union, struggles against a group of Bolsheviks led by Klimoff. A strike is called and McDonald's child is killed due to sabotage. Elsie, daughter of the capitalist Donald Alexander, is kidnapped by the Bolsheviks, but is saved by her lover, a secret agent.[3]
Cast
- Tyrone Power Sr. as Jim McDonald
- Donald Hall as Donald Alexander
- Dorothy Bernard as Elsie Alexander
- Jack Rutherford as Bob Sherwood
- Louis Stern as Klimoff
- E. Emerson as Greek leader
- Eugene Hornboestel as Frank Shea
Production
The film was sponsored by the Canadian Reconstruction Association. A Vickers factory in Montreal and a film studio in Trenton, Ontario were used for filming. Union members at the factory were used as unpaid extras.[3]
References
- Connelly p.100
- "4th Line Theatre opens 2022 season with The Great Shadow". thepeterboroughexaminer.com. 2022-05-11. Retrieved 2022-07-22.
- Khouri 2007, p. 44.
Works cited
- Khouri, Malek (2007). Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 9781552381991.
Bibliography
- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.