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The Garden of Lies (1915)

The Garden of Lies poster
Original title
Garden of Lies
Directed by
Jack Pratt
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A stage actress in her first film role plays a woman entangled in romantic deceptions. The story is set against Gulf Coast landscapes and based on a novel by an author who died the same year.

historicalmelancholicslow-pacedsomberatmosphericsomberquietold-fashioned

What happens

The Garden of Lies is a 1915 silent film drama directed by Jack Pratt and starring in her debut stage actress Jane Cowl. It was based on a novel by Justus Miles Forman who perished on the Lusitania that same year. The Universal Film Manufacturing Company handled the distribution. The film was shot in Jacksonville, Florida, St. Augustine, Florida, parts of Louisiana, and other areas around the Gulf of Mexico. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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