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Married in Name Only

1917 · 60 min

A solemn, melodramatic silent-era drama of thwarted love and inherited-fate anxiety, played with earnest intensity and a heavy, moralizing mood.

Directed by
Edmund Lawrence
Genres
Drama
Starring
Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, Marie Shotwell
Tagline
A Most Novel and Intense Drama Based Upon Eugenic Principals.
Overview
Robert Worthing marries his sweetheart, Madeline Francis, but the wedding is ruined by his mother, who announces that because she and her parents are insane, he possesses tainted genes. Fearing that he will pass the disease on to his children, the bridegroom avoids his new wife and locks the door between their rooms. Deeply in love with Madeline, whom he is forced to love only as a sister, Robert considers suicide, but all ends well when the young man learns that he was adopted.

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Directed by
Edmund Lawrence
Genres
Drama
Starring
Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, Marie Shotwell
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    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • family
    • identity
    • madness
    • love
    • fate
    Places
    • single country house
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
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    Action1
    Horror2
    Humour1
    Realism6
    Romance5
    Tension5
    Darkness6
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight7

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Edmund Lawrence
    Starring
    Gretchen Hartman, Milton Sills, Marie Shotwell, Dora Mills Adams, William Desmond
    Runtime
    60 min
    Country
    United States of America
    Languages
    No Language

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