A Celebrated Case (1914)
- Directed by
- George Melford
- Genre
- drama film, silent film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 50 min
- Rated
- NR
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A French soldier is falsely accused and convicted for killing his wife. He is sent to serve a brutal sentence in the galleys.
silentstarkslow-pacedtragicmelodramaticperiodsomber
What happens
A Celebrated Case is a 1914 American silent drama film starring Alice Joyce, Guy Coombs and Marguerite Courtot. It is based on the 1877 play Une cause célèbre by Adolphe Philippe Dennery and Eugene Cormon. A French soldier is wrongfully sentenced to the galleys for the murder of his wife. It is considered to be a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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