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The Devil-Stone (1917)

The Devil-Stone poster
Original title
The Devil Stone
Directed by
Cecil B. DeMille
Genre
silent film, romance film, satanic film, mystery film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rated
NR
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent film about a woman who becomes entangled in a romantic and mysterious story involving a cursed stone. She must navigate love and danger under supernatural circumstances.

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What happens

The Devil-Stone is a 1917 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille, co-written by his mother Beatrice deMille and Jeanie MacPherson, and starring Geraldine Farrar. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process"). Art direction for the film was done by Wilfred Buckland. This was the last of Farrar's films for Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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