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The Family Skeleton (1918)

The Family Skeleton poster
Directed by
Victor Schertzinger
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family's hidden past threatens to disrupt their present. A secret from long ago comes to light and affects everyone involved.

understatedrestrainedfamily-focusedpensivequietly tenseobservationalmelancholic

What happens

The Family Skeleton is a surviving 1918 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and Jerome Storm and written by Thomas H. Ince and Bert Lennon. The film stars Charles Ray, Sylvia Breamer, Andrew Arbuckle, William Elmer, Otto Hoffman, and Jack Dyer. The film was released on March 31, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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