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Manon Lescaut (1914)

Manon Lescaut poster
Directed by
Herbert Hall Winslow
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman's passion for luxury leads her into a scandalous love affair. Her devoted lover follows her through a series of dramatic reversals of fortune.

melodramatictragicromanticintimatestagedarchaicsilent-era

What happens

Manon Lescaut is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Hall Winslow and starring Lina Cavalieri, Lucien Muratore and Dorothy Arthur. It is an adaptation of the Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut (1731). It is now considered a lost film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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