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The Key to Power
(1920) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William Parke + [Frederick A. Thomson]

Cast: Hugh Thompson [Bruce Wendell], Claire Adams [Ann Blair], J.H. Gilmour [General Blair], Frazier Nounnan [Bobbie Blair], Tom Burrough [President Parrish], J.J. Dunn [James Wendell], Fred Radcliffe [Lieutenant Parrish], George Pauncefort [Von Bernstorff], Stephen Grattan [Meyer], L.F. Kennedy [Gross], Stephen Carr, Henri Rolf Otte

Educational Films Corporation of America production; distributed on State Rights basis by [?] Educational Films Corporation of America through Educational Film Exchanges, Incorporated? / Scenario by Caroline Gentry and E. Lloyd Sheldon, from a screen story by Caroline Gentry and E. Lloyd Sheldon. Assistant director, George A. Grimmer. Cinematography by Fred Held and William Zollinger. Presented by E.W. Hammons. / Released January 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Romance of Coal. Shooting began on 27 May 1918 with Thomson directing; who was replaced by Parke on 1 June 1918. Location photography was taken in West Virginia, New York and Washington D.C. Originally intended as a six-reel release, the production completion was delayed by the 1918 influenza epidemic. With the end of World War I, the production was caught in the late-1918 war film overload, its release was held, and it was later cut to five reels then released more than a year later.

Drama.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 5 June 2012.

References: Weaver-Twenty p. 27 : Website-AFI.

 
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