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The Nth Commandment (1923)

1923 · Silent film · 21 min · dir. Frank Borzage

She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks.

  • Drama

Synopsis

A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”

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Details

Director
Frank Borzage
Writer
Frances Marion
Cinematography
Chester A. Lyons
Studio
Cosmopolitan Productions
Released
1923-03-18
Running time
21 minutes

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