''Bound in Morocco'' is a 1918 American
silent action
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romantic comedy
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film starring
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films including '' The Thie ...
. Fairbanks produced and wrote the film's story and screenplay (under the pseudonym Elton Thomas), and
Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan (born Joseph Aloysius Dwan; April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer, and screenwriter.
Early life
Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan, was ...
directed. The film was produced by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures Corporation and distributed by
Famous Players-Lasky
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation was an American motion picture and distribution company formed on June 28, 1916, from the merger of Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Company—originally formed by Zukor as Famous Players in Famous Plays—and t ...
/ Artcraft Pictures.
Plot
As described in a
film magazine
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, George Travelwell (Fairbanks), an American youth motoring in Morocco, discovers that the governor of El Harib (Campeau) has seized a young American woman for his
harem
Harem (Persian: حرمسرا ''haramsarā'', ar, حَرِيمٌ ''ḥarīm'', "a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family") refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A hare ...
. Disguised as an inmate of the harem, George nearly wrecks the place while he rescues her. One thrilling incident follows upon the heels of another in their attempts to get away, and it ends with him setting one tribe against another, leaving them free to peacefully ride away.
Cast
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Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films including '' The Thie ...
as George Travelwell
*
Pauline Curley
Pauline Curley (December 19, 1903 – December 11, 2000) was a vaudeville and silent film actress from Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Her film career spanned much of the silent era, from 1915 to 1928.
Early years
Pauline Curley was born in Holyoke, M ...
as Ysail
*
Edythe Chapman
Edythe Chapman (October 8, 1863 – October 15, 1948) was an American stage and silent film actress.
Career
Born in Rochester, New York, Chapman began her stage career as early as 1898 when she appeared in New York City in ''The Charity Bal ...
as Ysail's mother
*
Tully Marshall
Tully Marshall (born William Phillips; April 10, 1864 – March 10, 1943) was an American character actor. He had nearly a quarter century of theatrical experience before his debut film appearance in 1914 which led to a film career spanning alm ...
as Ali Pah Shush
*
Frank Campeau
Frank Campeau (December 14, 1864 – November 5, 1943) was an American actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1911 and 1940 and made many appearances in films starring Douglas Fairbanks.
On Broadway, Campeau appeared in ''Rio Gr ...
as Basha El Harib, governor of Harib
*Jay Dwiggins as Kaid Mahedi el Menebhi, Lord High Ambassador to Morocco
*
Fred Burns
Frederick D. Burns (born September 6, 1889, in Nevada, Missouri; died December 22, 1971, in Cincinnati, Ohio) was an important figure in Midwest amateur tennis in the early part of the 20th century.
Burns was a journalist by profession from 1911 ...
as Bandit Chief
*
Albert MacQuarrie
Albert MacQuarrie (January 8, 1882, San Francisco – February 17, 1950, California) was an American silent film actor.
He was signed in 1912 and starred in about 70 films before his retirement.
He starred with William Garwood in films suc ...
*
Marjorie Daw (uncredited)
*
John George as Hunchback (uncredited)
*Emma-Lindsay Squier as Townswoman (uncredited)
Preservation
With no prints of ''Bound in Morocco'' located in any film archives, it is considered to be a
lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress.
Conditions
During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy o ...
.
''Bound in Morocco'' at TheGreatStars.com; Lost Films Wanted
(Wayback Machine)
See also
*List of lost films
For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.
Reas ...
References
External links
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*
Lantern slide for ''Bound in Morocco''
at silenthollywood.com
1918 films
1918 romantic comedy films
American action comedy films
American romantic comedy films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Famous Players-Lasky films
Films directed by Allan Dwan
Films set in Morocco
Lost American films
1910s action comedy films
1918 lost films
1910s American films
Silent romantic comedy films
Silent American comedy films
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