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Imar The Servitor
''Imar the Servitor'' is a 1914 American silent drama film written by Daniel Carson Goodman. The film stars William Garwood William Davis Garwood, Jr. (April 28, 1884 – December 28, 1950) was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent film era in the 1910s. Between 1911 and 1913, Garwood starred in a number of early adaptions of popula .... Plot Imar the Servitor rescues an American tourist who has lost his way in the desert and the two men become friends. Before he leaves, the American gives his friend a picture of his fiancĂ©e. When the tourist returns home, he discovers that his girlfriend has married a horseman, both of whom have journeyed to the Arabian desert. Imar's master attacks the trader's wife. Her husband then accuses her of infidelity and starts to beat her. Imar recognizes her from the picture given to him by his American friend and rescues her. They both traverse the desert and meet her former fiancĂ©, who has been sent for. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Carson Goodman
Daniel Carson Goodman (August 24, 1881 – May 16, 1957) was an American screenwriter and licensed physician. Biography Goodman wrote the storyline for 28 silent films – the first of them was ''Sapho (1913 film), Sapho'' (1913). He worked as miscellaneous crew in three films, produced two films and directed one film, ''Thoughtless Women'' (1920). He also achieved notoriety after the banning of a book he had written called ''Hagar Revelly'', originally published in 1913. It became the subject of a lawsuit, ''United States v. Kennerley''. H.L. Mencken wrote of this prudish state of affairs in 1917: The action of the novels of the William Dean Howells, Howells school goes on within four walls of painted canvas; they begin to shock once they describe an attack of asthma or a steak burning below stairs; they never penetrate beneath the flow of social concealments and urbanities to the passions that actually move men and women to their acts, and the great forces that circum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |