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Forbidden Paths (1917)

Forbidden Paths poster
Directed by
Robert Thornby
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rated
NR
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A silent drama from 1917. It follows several characters including a woman and a man from Japan as their lives cross. The story is told with the simple, emotional style of early cinema.

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What happens

Forbidden Paths is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Robert Thornby and written by Beatrice DeMille, Leighton Osmun and Eve Unsell. The film stars Vivian Martin, Sessue Hayakawa, Tom Forman, Carmen Phillips, James Neill and Ernest Joy. The film was released on July 12, 1917, by Paramount Pictures. A print of Forbidden Paths exits in the Library of Congress film archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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