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Flower of the Dusk

1918 · 53 min

A quiet, sorrowful silent drama that asks you to sit with a family's painful secret and the mercy of a lie.

Directed by
John H. Collins
Genres
Drama
Starring
Viola Dana, Margaret McWade, Howard Hall
Tagline
Is deceit always wrong - would you deceive a blind man to make him happy?
Overview
Blind Ambrose North is tormented by the suspicion that his wife Constance committed suicide when their crippled daughter Barbara was only two, because she did not love him. Before her death, Constance wrote Barbara a letter to be opened on the girl's twenty-first birthday, but when Barbara opens it and learns that her mother killed herself to escape a doomed love affair with Lawrence Austin, she invents a different story for Ambrose, knowing that the truth would hurt him too deeply.

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Directed by
John H. Collins
Genres
Drama
Starring
Viola Dana, Margaret McWade, Howard Hall
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • deception
  • grief
  • guilt
  • love
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism6
Romance4
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Starring
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Runtime
53 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
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