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The Prisoner (1923)

The Prisoner poster
Directed by
Jack Conway
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
United States
Runtime
50 min
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A drama set in a fictional kingdom. A man finds himself caught up in palace intrigue and romantic entanglements.

dramaticstatelysilent-eraromanticstylizedhistoricalcourtly

What happens

The Prisoner is a 1923 American silent drama film set in a fictional kingdom, directed by Jack Conway and featuring Herbert Rawlinson, Eileen Percy, June Elvidge, George Cowl and Boris Karloff. Karloff was paid $150.00 a week salary for working on this film. The screenplay was written by Edward T. Lowe Jr., based on a novel called Castle Craneycrow by George Barr McCutcheon. The film is considered to be lost. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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