Forgotten Faces is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Victor Schertzinger and starring Clive Brook, Mary Brian, and Olga Baclanova. The production was overseen by David O. Selznick, a rising young producer at the time.Dick p. 248 The film was remade by Paramount in 1936 as a sound film.
The film is preserved with copies at the Library of Congress and the Museum of Modern Art.The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Forgotten FacesCatalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p.62 c.1978 by the American Film Institute
This film is Paramount's remake of their 1920 film Heliotrope.
Plot A criminal, “Heliotrope” Harry, comes home after a stick-up job and finds his wife Lilly in bed with another man. He shoots his rival and deposits their baby daughter Alice on a rich couple's doorstep. While serving a life sentence, Harry is updated on his daughter's happy life by his old criminal associate Froggy. For years, his vengeful wife seeks their daughter in vain. When she finally locates their child, the father wrangles parole from a sympathetic warden. He seeks to ensure permanent protection for his daughter by luring his crazed wife into a trap where she shoots him but suffers a prearranged fatal accident while escaping. The father dies in his daughter's arms, who now knows and appreciates his true identity and love for her.
Cast Clive Brook as Heliotrope Harry Harlow Mary Brian as Alice Deane Olga Baclanova as Lilly Harlow William Powell as Froggy Fred Kohler as Number 1309 Jack Luden as Tom Ernie Adams as Trusty in Hospital (uncredited) Symona Boniface as Roulette Player (uncredited)
References
Bibliography Dick, Bernard F. Engulfed: The Death of Paramount Pictures and the Birth of Corporate Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
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