The Bright Shawl
Set in 1850s Cuba, Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer who is in love with Narcissa but instead pursues La Clavel to obtain information about the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother of Nar...
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"The film was shown in November at the annual Lillian and Dorothy Gish Film Festival in Massillon, Ohio (the Gish home town). It was a newly restored print and featured an extraordinarily energetic and adventurous piano accompaniment for its entire eighty minutes. As a silent picture, it had very good performances. Robinson, then only thirty years old, was given a mustache and goatee and aged to look sixty. Was Mary Astor ever seventeen?? She was in this film and looked beautiful as Robinson's daughter. Barthelmess and Dorothy Gish were fine romantic leads, and William Powell villainou..."
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A print of this film survives in the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
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Set in 1850s Cuba, Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer who is in love with Narcissa but instead pursues La Clavel to obtain information about the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother of Nar...