''The Prodigal Judge'' is a 1922 American
silent historical
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drama film
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directed by
Edward José
Edward José (5 July 1865 – 18 December 1930) was a Belgian film director and actor of the silent era. He directed 42 films between 1915 and 1925. He also performed in 12 films between 1910 and 1916.Jean Paige
Jean Paige (born Lucille Beatrice O'Hair, July 3, 1895 – December 15, 1990) was an American film actress of the silent era.
Early years
Paige was born in Paris, Illinois, and raised on her father's farm there. She developed a love for hors ...
,
Macklyn Arbuckle
Maclyn Arbuckle (July 9, 1866 – March 31, 1931) was an American screen and stage actor. He was the brother of actor Andrew Arbuckle and cousin of comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Early life
Arbuckle was born in San Antonio, Texas, on July ...
and
Ernest Torrence
Ernest Torrence (born Ernest Torrance-Thomson, 26 June 1878 – 15 May 1933) was a Scottish film character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films, including '' Broken Chains'' (1922) with Colleen Moore, '' Mantrap'' (1926) with Clara Bow a ...
.
[McCaffrey & Jacobs p.271] It is based on the 1911
novel of the same title by
Vaughn Kester.
Cast
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Jean Paige
Jean Paige (born Lucille Beatrice O'Hair, July 3, 1895 – December 15, 1990) was an American film actress of the silent era.
Early years
Paige was born in Paris, Illinois, and raised on her father's farm there. She developed a love for hors ...
as Betty Malroy
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Macklyn Arbuckle
Maclyn Arbuckle (July 9, 1866 – March 31, 1931) was an American screen and stage actor. He was the brother of actor Andrew Arbuckle and cousin of comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Early life
Arbuckle was born in San Antonio, Texas, on July ...
as Judge Slocum Price
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Ernest Torrence
Ernest Torrence (born Ernest Torrance-Thomson, 26 June 1878 – 15 May 1933) was a Scottish film character actor who appeared in many Hollywood films, including '' Broken Chains'' (1922) with Colleen Moore, '' Mantrap'' (1926) with Clara Bow a ...
as Solomon Mahaffy
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Earle Foxe
Earle Foxe (born Earl Aldrich Fox; December 25, 1891 – December 10, 1973) was an American actor.
Early years
Foxe was born in Oxford, Ohio, to Charles Aldrich Fox, originally of Flint, Michigan, and Eva May Herron. He was educated at Ohio Sta ...
as Bruce Carrington
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Arthur Edmund Carewe
Arthur Edmund Carewe (December 30, 1884 – April 22, 1937), born Hovsep Hovsepian ( hy, Հովսեփ Հովսեփյան), was an Armenian-American stage and film actor of the silent and early sound film era.
Early life
Born on December 30, 18 ...
as Col. Fentress
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Horace Braham
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...
as Charles Norton
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Charles Kent as Gen. Quintard
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Charles Eaton as Hannibal
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Robert Milasch
Robert Milasch (April 18, 1885 – November 14, 1954) was an American character actor in the Silent film, silent and Sound film, sound periods. He was 6 feet, 6 inches tall.
Biography
Milasch left his Smoke Mountain, Tennessee, home at age 9, ...
as Bob Yancy
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George Bancroft
George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and internati ...
as Cavendish
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Peggy Shanor as Bess Hicks
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Lillian Van Arsdale as Mrs. Cavendish
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Mary Curran as Mrs. Hicks
References
Bibliography
* Donald W. McCaffrey & Christopher P. Jacobs. ''Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema''. Greenwood Publishing, 1999.
External links
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1922 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Edward José
Vitagraph Studios films
Films set in the 1830s
American historical drama films
1920s historical drama films
1920s English-language films
1920s American films
Silent American drama films
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