A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Sign of the Poppy
(1916) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Charles Swickard

Cast: Hobart Henley [Alvin Marston; and Chang], Gertrude Selby [Edith Marston], Mina Cunard [Helen Durant], Wilbur Higby [Jerry Marston], Robert Clark [Rex Durant], Garland Briden [Hop Li]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by J. Grubb Alexander. Cinematography by Harry Maguire. / © 24 November 1916 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP9597]. Released 4 December 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: The Lie.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chinese-Americans - Crime: Murder (Attempted) - Drugs - Suicide

Listing updated: 5 December 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 23 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.