Green Eyes (1918 film)

Green Eyes is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and written by Ella Stuart Carson, John Lynch, and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Emory Johnson, Doris May, Robert McKim, and Clyde Benson. The film was released on August 11, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2] It is not known whether the film currently survives.[3]

Green Eyes
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Directed byRoy William Neill
Produced byThomas H. Ince
Screenplay byElla Stuart Carson
John Lynch
R. Cecil Smith (scenario)
StarringDorothy Dalton
Jack Holt
Emory Johnson
Doris May
Robert McKim
Clyde Benson
CinematographyJohn Stumar
Production
company
Thomas H. Ince Corporation
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 11, 1918 (1918-08-11)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)
Still with Dalton and Holt.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[4] hardly had Pearson Hunter (Holt) returned to the south with his young bride Shirley (Dalton) than he flew into a jealous rage because his wife knew one of the men in the welcoming party. Later, when the two lost their way while on a hunting trip, he vented an unreasonable rage upon her.

Margery Gibson (May), fiancé of his brother Morgan (Johnson), felt the pangs of the green-eyed monster whenever Morgan showed his sister-in-law the slightest courtesy. She confided her suspicions to Pearson. In the meantime Morgan, resenting a slur upon his brother's wife by Alexander Chapman (McKim), fell him with a blow.

A mulatto who hated Chapman was lurking nearby and choked the prostrate man to death. Morgan, thinking he was a murderer, fled in panic and hid in his sister-in-law's room, where he was found by his brother Pearson.

Pearson at once passed judgement and did not want to hear explanations, but later after learning the truth upon hearing the confession of the mulatto, he sought forgiveness and promised to banish jealousy from his life.

Cast

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Green Eyes was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors removed slurs by required a cut, in Reel 1, of the intertitle "You white nigger, how dare you talk to a gentlemen" and, in Reel 4, the intertitle "I'se the white nigger you kicked in the dirt".[5]

References
  1. "Green-Eyes - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com". The New York Times. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  2. "Green Eyes". AFI. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  3. Progressive Silent Film List: Green Eyes at silentera.com
  4. "Reviews: Green Eyes". Exhibitors Herald. New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company. 7 (10): 28. August 31, 1918.
  5. "Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors". Exhibitors Herald. 7 (11): 44. September 14, 1918.
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