Movie
Because of a Woman
1917 · 50 min
A quiet, earnest silent melodrama of sacrifice and mistaken loyalty, unfolding slowly with restrained feeling and a wistful desert stillness.
- Directed by
- Jack Conway
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jack Livingston, Belle Bennett, George Chesebro
- Overview
- Because he desires to shield the father of the girl he loves, though he suspects another to be the real culprit, Clavering takes upon himself the reproach of business treachery and seeks a hiding place as operator at a little telegraph station in the desert. There comes the man he suspects, and Clavering wrings a confession from him, but lets him go when he declares that he is married to the girl. Too late he discovers his error, but in seeking to shield the girl from further distress finds happiness from an unexpected source.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, romantic, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Love, betrayal, guilt, redemption
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Jack Conway
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Jack Livingston, Belle Bennett, George Chesebro
