词条 | The Love Flower |
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| name = The Love Flower | image = The Love Flower (1920) - 3.jpg | image_size = | caption = Newspaper ad for The Love Flower | director = D. W. Griffith | producer = D. W. Griffith | writer = D. W. Griffith | based on = {{based on|“Black Beach” (story)|Ralph Stock}} | starring = Carol Dempster Richard Barthelmess | cinematography = G. W. Bitzer Paul H. Allen | editing = | budget = $300,000[1] | distributor = United Artists | released = {{Film date|1920|08|22|New York City|1920|09|05|U.S.}} | runtime = 7 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}The Love Flower is a 1920 American silent drama film produced by D. W. Griffith and released through the then nascent United Artist company of which Griffith was a founding partner.[2][3] PlotAs described in a film magazine,[4] Thomas Bevan (MacQuarrie) has served an undeserved term in prison. He marries again, but his new wife is unsympathetic towards his daughter Stella (Dempster) because of the father's great great love for and comradeship with his daughter. Matthew Crane (Randolf) of the Secret Service, who sent Bevan to prison, comes to the town where Bevan is now living. Bevan's wife is unfaithful, and a loyal servant (Lestina) goes after Bevan, who had been leaving on a business trip, and tells him of the treachery. Bevan goes back to verify the statement, and in a fight the man (Kent) is accidentally killed. Crane hears of the murder and intercepts Stella, who had been on her way to the motorboat Bevan had purchased for his getaway. Bevan comes up from the rear and makes a captive of Crane until he and his daughter leave. They eventually land on a South Sea island and happily live there with one servant. Visiting a nearby island to trade with a native, Stella meets Bruce Sanders (Barthelmess), a wealthy plantation owner out for excitement. She wants to be friends with him, but fears he may be a federal officer looking for her father. Sanders is puzzled by her cold manner. Sanders returns to the mainland where he meets Crane who is hot on the trail. Crane persuades Sanders to take him to the island where Stella and Bevan live, which he, unsuspecting, gladly does. On their arrival Crane arrests Bevan and Stella, believing Sanders deliberately brought Crane there, will have nothing to do with him. Stella sinks Sanders boat, marooning all four on the island. When the boat is washed ashore, Sanders to show his good faith sinks it again, and Stella confesses that she loves him. Crane's comrades send help to him on the island, and Bevan refuses to get on the boat. After a dramatic fight, Crane believes Bevan has drowned. Stella and Sanders return and wed on the mainland and make plans to rescue her father. Cast
ProductionGriffith filmed The Love Flower simultaneously with The Idol Dancer (1920) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Nassau, Bahamas, in December 1919 to fulfill a contract with First National Pictures,[5] but after previewing the film on 2 April 1920 before the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York, he purchased the rights to The Love Flower for $400,000.[2] Additional underwater footage of Dempster was shot in Florida along with scenes of her and MacQuarrie against a black background. The reedited film was then released by United Artists. References1. ^{{cite book |last=Balio |first=Tino |authorlink= |title=United Artists: The Company Built by the Stars |date=2009 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press |page=39 |isbn=978-0-299-23004-3}} 2. ^1 Progressive Silent Film List: The Love Flower at silentera.com 3. ^The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c. 1988 4. ^{{cite journal |title=Reviews: The Love Flower |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=11 |issue=14 |page=85 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=October 2, 1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald11exhi_1}} 5. ^{{cite book|last=Wagenknecht|first=Edward |authorlink=Edward Wagenknecht |title=The Movies in the Age of Innocence|edition=3 |year=2014|publisher=McFarland |isbn=1-476-61764-3 |pages=86–87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MHeuBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false}} External links{{commons category|The Love Flower}}
8 : 1920 films|American silent feature films|Films directed by D. W. Griffith|Films based on short fiction|1920s drama films|American films|American drama films|American black-and-white films |
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