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The Lost Paradise
(1914) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by J. Searle Dawley
Cast: H.B. Warner [Reuben Warren], Catherine Cater [Margaret Knowlton], Mark Price [Andrew Knowlton], Arthur Hoops [Ralph Standish], Rita Stan [Nell], Amy Summers [‘Cinders’], Phillips Tead [Billy Hopkins], Trixie Jennery [Kate], Wellington A. Playter [Schwartz], August Balfour [Joe Barrett], Marcus Moriarty [Old Bensel]
Famous Players Film Company production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / From the play adaptation The Lost Paradise by Henry C. de Mille of the play Das verlorene Paradies by Lugwig Fulda. Cinematography by Harry Leslie Keepers and H. Lyman Broening. Presented by Daniel Frohman. / Released 31 August 1914. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Warner’s film debut. The first release from Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Drama.
Synopsis: [?] [From The Moving Picture World]? The superintendent of the Knowlton Iron Works is in love with his employer’s daughter, who has been reared in luxury, and is the idol of her father. To save this woman from the knowledge that her father is a thief, the loyal superintendent takes upon his own shoulders the guilt of her father’s crime. After all the stress which the story develops, his sacrifice is learned and rewarded by the woman he loves, who decides to stand with him on the side of the oppressed workmen, to whose cause the superintendent has devoted his life’s labor.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2609.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 19 December 2024.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2609; Slide-Aspects p. 44; Tarbox-Lost p. 205 : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.
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