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One Way Street (1925)

One Way Street poster
Directed by
John Francis Dillon
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman are caught in a doomed love affair in 1920s America. Their choices lead them down a path of no return.

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What happens

One Way Street is a 1925 American drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by Earl Hudson, Mary Alice Scully, and Arthur F. Statter. It is based on the 1924 novel One Way Street by Beale Davis. The film stars Ben Lyon, Anna Q. Nilsson, Marjorie Daw, Dorothy Cumming, Lumsden Hare, and Mona Kingsley. The film was released on April 12, 1925, by First National Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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