a contemporary newspaper advertisement
''The Brand of Cowardice'' is a 1916 silent film starring
Lionel Barrymore and released through
Metro Pictures
Metro Pictures Corporation was a motion picture production company founded in early 1915 in Jacksonville, Florida. It was a forerunner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The company produced its films in New York, Los Angeles, and sometimes at leased f ...
. It is a
lost
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Geography
*Lost, Aberdeenshire, a hamlet in Scotland
* Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, or LOST, a hiking and cycling trail in Florida, US
History
*Abbreviation of lost work, any work which is known to have bee ...
film.
[''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20'' by The American Film Institute, c.1988]
Plot
After Cyril Hamilton refuses to follow his father-in-law Colonel Gordon West's
National Guard
National Guard is the name used by a wide variety of current and historical uniformed organizations in different countries. The original National Guard was formed during the French Revolution around a cadre of defectors from the French Guards.
Nat ...
unit into action in the
Mexican Border War, his fiancé Marcia West breaks up with him. He ashamedly enlists in another regiment and goes west but alienates all of his fellow soldiers with his pompous behavior. However, he finally redeems himself by rescuing Marcia from the bandit Navarete. Although they are overwhelmed by Navarete's forces after killing him, they are rescued by Colonel West's forces and marry.
Cast
*
Lionel Barrymore as Cyril Hamilton
*
Grace Valentine
Grace Valentine (February 14, 1884 – November 12, 1964) was an American stage and film actress.
Early years
Valentine was born in Springfield, Ohio.
Career
She began her career in the theater in 1905 and toured in stock companies for t ...
as Marcia West
*Robert Cummings as Colonel Gordon West
*Kate Blancke as Mrs. West
*
John Davidson as Navarete
*
Frank Montgomery as Idiqui
*
Louis Wolheim
Louis Robert Wolheim (March 28, 1880 – February 18, 1931) was an American actor, of both stage and screen, whose rough physical appearance relegated him to roles mostly of thugs or villains in the movies, but whose talent allowed him to fl ...
as Corporal Mallin
*
Tula Belle as Ran, Isiqui's daughter
Production
The film was shot in
Huntington and
Tarrytown
Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York. It is located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, approximately north of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a stop on the Metro-North Hu ...
,
New York. Battle scenes were shot in
New Hampton using local convicts as extras.
See also
*
Lionel Barrymore filmography
References
External links
*
*
lantern slide to the film
1916 films
American silent feature films
Lost American films
1916 drama films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by John W. Noble
Silent American drama films
Metro Pictures films
1916 lost films
Lost drama films
Films shot in New York (state)
1910s American films
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