Silas Marner
After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser.
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"SILAS MARNER would be a difficult movie to film today because of the inherent spiritual and religious issues that underlie its plot. Nominally it should have been possible to do better in 1916. However, this version is pretty much played for straight melodrama, courtesy of a script by Philip Lonergan, who certainly had a taste for it as evidenced by his other work at Thanhouser. Usually the Broadway actors who appeared in Thanhouser's movies actually had a fairly good idea of how to act on film: they would simply give their stage-style performances, but considerably toned down. At first,..."
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This film is presumed lost. However, an incomplete copy exists at the Library of Congress.
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After having been wrongly accused of murder and robbery, a heretofore kindly and gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser.