''The Uninvited Guest'' is a 1924 American
silent drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Ralph Ince
Ralph Waldo Ince (January 16, 1887 – April 10, 1937) was an American pioneer film actor, director and screenwriter whose career began near the dawn of the silent film, silent film era. Ralph Ince was the brother of John Ince (actor), John E. I ...
, and starring
Maurice "Lefty" Flynn, Jean Tolley,
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren (born Mary Ida MacDonald, also credited Mary McLaren; January 19, 1900 – November 9, 1985) was an American film actress in both the silent and sound eras."Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910 Population", digital cop ...
,
William Bailey, and
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 ...
. A print of the film exists in the Russian film archive
Gosfilmofond
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.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,
[ ] while voyaging from Australia to New York City, Olive Granger suffers a shipwreck and manages to reach an island. Two other survivors, Irene Carlton and Fred Morgan, gamblers, steal her credentials and go to the United States, where Irene poses as Olive. The latter is rescued by Paul Patterson, a diver, who has to fight off his partner Jan Boomer for her. Boomer meets his demise in the clutching coils of a giant octopus. Paul and Olive arrive in New York City, expose the imposters, and are wed.
Cast
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Maurice Bennett Flynn
Maurice Bennett Flynn (May 26, 1892 – March 4, 1959) was an American football player and actor. He was also known as "Lefty" Flynn because in football, he kicked with his left foot.
Biography
Flynn was born in Greenwich, Connecticut on May 26 ...
as Paul "Gin" Patterson
* Jean Tolley as Olive Granger
*
Mary MacLaren
Mary MacLaren (born Mary Ida MacDonald, also credited Mary McLaren; January 19, 1900 – November 9, 1985) was an American film actress in both the silent and sound eras."Thirteenth Census of the United States: 1910 Population", digital cop ...
as Irene Carlton
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William Bailey as Fred Morgan
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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 Jan Boomer
Production
The film was shot partially in the
Bahamas
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and included scenes made using the
Williamson underwater camera,
and was released by
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 ...
a few months before the merger that created
Metro-Goldwyn. The film had a sequence filmed in
Technicolor
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Definitive Technicolor movies using three black and white films ...
.
See also
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List of early color feature films
This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio f ...
References
External links
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1924 films
1920s color films
American silent feature films
Films directed by Ralph Ince
Films shot in the Bahamas
1924 drama films
Silent American drama films
Silent films in color
American black-and-white films
Metro Pictures films
1920s American films
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