Without Benefit of Clergy
Film still with Thomas Holding and Virginia Brown Faire
Directed byJames Young
Written byRandolph C. Lewis
Based onWithout Benefit of Clergy
by Rudyard Kipling
Produced byRobert Brunton
StarringNigel De Brulier
Virginia Brown Faire
Boris Karloff
Thomas Holding
CinematographyJack Okey
Production
company
Robert Brunton Productions
Distributed byPathé Exchange
Release date
June 26, 1921[1]
Running time
6 reels (1 hour)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Without Benefit of Clergy is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by James Young and featuring Virginia Brown Faire, Thomas Holding and Boris Karloff.[2] It is based on the story by Rudyard Kipling.[3] A print of the film still exists at the UCLA Film and Television Archives and at Archives Du Film Du CNC (Bois D'Arcy/Paris).[4][5]

Plot

Holden, a young English engineer in India, falls in love with the native girl Ameera, so he buys her from her mother. Their marital union violates the strict social structure they live in. They live together very happily until their baby son dies. Later, Ameera dies during a cholera epidemic.[6] The film's tagline was "The deathless drama of Ameera, the Hindu girl, and the British engineer, whose "love need no caste." (Print Ad in the Sunday Chronicle, ((Paterson, NJ)) 4 September 1921)

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List".
  2. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Without Benefit of Clergy". Silent Era. Retrieved April 6, 2008.
  3. ^ Harold Bloom, ed. Rudyard Kipling. Chelsea House, 2004.
  4. ^ Without Benefit of Clergy, silentera.com, retrieved December 13, 2013
  5. ^ "Without Benefit of Clergy". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 10, 2014.
  6. ^ "Plenty of Atmosphere in Undramatic Story", The Film Daily, p. 3, June 26, 1921, retrieved December 13, 2013

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