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The Lure (1914 film)

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The Lure
Directed byAlice Guy Blaché
Written byAlice Guy Blaché
Based onThe Lure
by George Scarborough
StarringClaire Whitney
James O'Neill
Production
company
Distributed byWorld Film Corporation
Release date
  • 1914 (1914)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Lure is a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Alice Guy Blaché starring James O'Neill, Fraunie Fraunholz, Kirah Markham, and Claire Whitney.[1] The Lure was an adaptation of a controversial play by George Scarborough that gives a sympathetic depiction of social pressures leading women into prostitution.[2][3]

Cast

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Preservation

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With no copies of The Lure listed in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Progressive Silent Film List: The Lure at silentera.com
  2. ^ "The Lure [1914], a celebrated play of the Shubert tour, with Julia Moore, for World."
  3. ^ Campbell, Russell (2006). Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-299-21250-5. One of the few females prominent in the motion picture industry, Alice Guy-Blaché, directed The Lure (1914), an adaptation of a controversial play about young women being entrapped in a brothel; she stated that she took on the project after ....Guy reports that when the film came before a censorship board, one of the women on the committee defended it by saying, "The subject was offensive—I believe that only a woman could have treated it with such delicacy.
  4. ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Lure
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The Lure at IMDb