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Ashes
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 3500 feet
Directed by G.M. Anderson (Gilbert M. Anderson)

Cast: William Courtleigh [Mr. DeCourcey], Leona Anderson [Mrs. DeCourcey], Margaret Landis [Madeline DeCourcey], Myrtle Stedman [Mrs. Crafton], Wedgewood Nowell [Mr. Crafton], George Howard [Arthur Spencer], Carrie Clarke Ward (Carrie Clarke Ward) [Mrs. Van Stuyhl], Stanton Heck [the hotel detective]

Amalgamated Producing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by East Coast Productions, Incorporated. / From a screen story by Charles Munson. Cinematography by Arthur Reeves. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was granted a New York state exhibition license on 24 February 1922.

Drama.

Synopsis: [The Moving Picture World, 1 April 1922, page 551] A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man. While waiting she reads a magazine story telling how Mr. and Mrs. Crafton . . . set out to extort money from DeCourcey. . . . Mr. Crafton leaving the room, Mrs. Crafton saying she is in financial difficulties, tries to borrow money. DeCourcey refuses. Mrs. Crafton then makes a scene, her husband enters, she accuses DeCourcey of seeking to attack her. . . . DeCourcey, who has remained smoking, shows the ashes remaining on his cigar [to the hotel detective] as evidence that there has been no struggle. The detective believes his accusation of blackmail against the pair and they are arrested. After reading the story the young wife leaves a note saying she has gone back to her home in the country. The intended victim arrives and turns out to be a detective. After reading the note, he takes the penitent young husband to the railroad station and sends him back to his wife.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 May 2012.

References: Website-AFI.

 
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