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The New Magdalen (1914)

The New Magdalen poster
Directed by
Travers Vale
Genre
silent film
Country
United States
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A short silent film. It adapts Wilkie Collins's novel about a woman trying to escape her past.

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What happens

The New Magdalen è un cortometraggio muto del 1914 diretto da Travers Vale. Venne prodotto dalla Biograph Company e distribuito dalla General Film Company. Fu il terzo adattamento per lo schermo dell'omonimo romanzo di Wilkie Collins (1873) dopo The New Magdalen del 1910 di Joseph A. Golden e The New Magdalen del 1912 diretto da Herbert Brenon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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