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Shackles of Gold (1922)

Shackles of Gold poster
Directed by
Herbert Brenon
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h
Rating
3.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman from an aristocratic but poor family faces pressure from her relatives to marry a wealthy financier. The film is a silent drama adapted from a play.

melodramatictenseemotionalclassicslow-burnseriousperiodsuspenseful

What happens

Shackles of Gold is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring William Farnum, Alfred Loring, and Marie Shotwell. It is an adaptation of the 1908 play Samson by Henri Bernstein with the setting moved from France to America. The screenplay involves a woman from an aristocratic but poor family who is pressured by her relatives to marry a wealthy financier. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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