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attention and in trying to return it he rescues a girl who had gone to an apartment to recover the valuable formula and was being detained against her will. Following this recovery the paper again goes astray and Brown is disgraced. Bill finally gets the reward and wins the girl by his bravery and unassuming manner.
References: Reviewed issue June 10, 1922, page 3163. First run showings, pg. 348, July 22; 618-9, Aug. 5, 1922.
Newspaper Displays: Page 874, Aug. 19, 1922.
SILAS MARNER. Produced by Frank P. Donovan. Distributed by Associated Exhibitors through Pathe. Released April 30, 1922. All-star cast. Director, Frank P. Donovan. Length, 6,344 feet.
Synopsis: A screen dramatization of George Eliot's novel. Founded upon a story incorporating a blended resume of love, tragedy, mystery and deception. Silas Marner, the weaver of Raveloe, who became a miser during the solitude he sought after, lost faith in truth, his fellowmen and God. Then his gold was stolen and its place in his lonely life was filled by a waif, whose mother died at his door. He was allowed by the townspeople to keep her, and all the wasted and repressed love of years he lavished on the child, who grew toyoung womanhood, adoring her daddy Marner. When her real father turns' up she prefers to stay with daddy Marner and marry Aaron.
References: Reviewed issue June 3, 1922, page 3066. First run showings, pg. 46, July 1; 348, July 22; 716-7, Aug. 12, 1922.
Advertising: Page 2384-5, April 29, 1922.
Newspaper Displays: Page 620, Aug. 5, 1922.
SILENT VOW, THE. Produced and distributed by Vitagraph. Released April 16, 1922. Star and director, William Duncan. Length, 5 reels.
Synopsis: Northwest Mounted drama with star playing dual role — father and son. In the prologue Gorson persuades the wife of Stratton to elope with him. Twenty years later Gorson with his two sons and Stratton and his son Dick meet. Their enmity is revived. Sudden death carries off the two principals. The feud is carried on by the second generation. Dick, a " Mounted " trooper, is sent to track the Gorsons, suspected murderers of his father. By a queer twist of fortune the hunter and hunted join forces to protect heroine and sister from a notorious gang. It is proven that the elder Stratton died of heart failure. Explanations follow and the feud is ended. The men startback for civilization with the two girls.
References: Reviewed issue April 15, 1922, page 2219.
SILVER SPURS. Produced by Doubleday Prod. Co. Distributed by Western Pictures Exploitation Co. Released May 1, 1922. Star, Lester Cuneo. Directors, Henry McCarty and Leo Meehan. Length, 6 reels.
Synopsis: Western melodrama. The title comes from a pair of lucky spurs which is given to the hero, a writer of Western stories and general all-around adventurer, by a crowd of his New York club friends. With the spurs as a good luck symbol he goes West in search of romance. In California he meets and falls in love with a Spanish girl, who has been defrauded of her estate by an unscrupulous half-breed. After many fights with the villain and his cohorts, he gets back the girl's property and returns to New York with her u. bit bride.