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What Would You Do

1920 · 50 min

A somber silent melodrama that piles on moral dilemmas and tragic turns, watching it feels like a heavy, old-fashioned cautionary tale.

Directed by
Edmund Lawrence
Genres
Drama
Starring
Madlaine Traverse, George A. McDaniel, Frank Elliott
Overview
Released in January 1920, this silent romantic love triangle crime melodrama, about a man who sells fake stock and fakes his suicide. His wife remarries, but her new husband suffers a crippling accident, and wants to die, so she gives him a gun. The day he succeeds, her first husband returns, having made a fortune, and they are united.

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Directed by
Edmund Lawrence
Genres
Drama
Starring
Madlaine Traverse, George A. McDaniel, Frank Elliott
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • betrayal
  • guilt
  • death
  • redemption
  • morality
Places
  • big city
  • sea
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
Action3
Horror2
Humour1
Realism6
Romance5
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Edmund Lawrence
Written by
Denison Clift
Starring
Madlaine Traverse, George A. McDaniel, Frank Elliott, Charles K. French, Lenore Lynard, Bud Geary, Edwin B. Tilton, Cordelia Callahan
Cinematography
Walter Williams
Runtime
50 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
No Language

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