Movie
The Web of Desire
1917 · 50 min
A quiet, melancholy silent melodrama of neglect and scheming, unfolding with restrained tension and old-fashioned emotional weight.
- Directed by
- Émile Chautard
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Ethel Clayton, Rockliffe Fellowes, Doris Field
- Overview
- When his wife Grace inherits her father's stock, John Miller, the president of the Western Power and Development Company, becomes a millionaire and moves to New York with his family. Beset by business problems, Miller pays little attention to his wife, and Grace, feeling neglected, takes up with a bohemian set. Among her new acquaintances she meets Stuart Mordant, the attorney for Thomas Hurd, a business rival of Miller's. Grace seeks refuge from loneliness in Mordant, who makes a bargain with Hurd to gain control of her husband's company for half a million dollars.
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- Directed by
- Émile Chautard
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Ethel Clayton, Rockliffe Fellowes, Doris Field
