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RUNTIME
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Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Prudence on Broadway
"A Dramatic Comedy with plenty of action in which demureness disarms a scoundrel and is trapped by a woman's wit"
1919 0h 50m EN
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MASTERPIECE
★10.0TMDB · 1
Comedy
Synopsis
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Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in girlish pranks, but uses her pure appearance to escape blame. Later, Prudence visits her New York aunt, a society matron, and soon attracts an array of male admirers. She falls in love with wealthy Grayson Mills, but John Melbourne, who lives off of his wife's wealth, plots to seduce her. After Melbourne loans Prudence $200 to pay a gambling debt, he forces her to go to a roadhouse by threatening to show her stern father her canceled check. At dinner, Prudence produces a love letter which Melbourne had earlier written to an actress, and says that if she is not back by midnight, her hotel clerk will show Melbourne's wife his nineteen other love letters. After Melbourne hurries her back, he discovers that she only had the one letter. Prudence now becomes engaged to Grayson.
“A Dramatic Comedy with plenty of action in which demureness disarms a scoundrel and is trapped by a woman's wit”
Cast
Olive Thomas
Prudence
Francis McDonald
Grayson Mills
Harvey Clark
John Melbourne
J.P. Wild
John Ogilvie
Alberta Lee
Mrs. Ogilvie
Lillian West
Mrs. Allen Wentworth
Edward Peil Sr.
Mr. Wentworth
Mary Warren
Kitty
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Frank Borzage
- Writers
- Catherine Carr
- Languages
- No Language
- Countries
- United States of America
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The take
Frank Borzage directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in No Language.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 50-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2107 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Olive Thomas and Francis McDonald and Harvey Clark carry the top of the cast.
- 5Marketing tagline: "A Dramatic Comedy with plenty of action in which demureness disarms a scoundrel and is trapped by a woman's wit".
- 6IMDB entry: tt0010597 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 1 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 50 min · 0h 50m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- EN
Also by
Frank Borzage
Production companies
Who made it
Triangle Film Corporation
US
Key crew
- CinematographyPliny Horne
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- lost film
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1919-07-06· LOST FILM
Also known as
International titles
- Prudence Comes to TownUS
