The Man Beneath
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| Directed by | William Worthington |
| Based on | Only a Nigger by Edmund Mitchell |
| Produced by | Sessue Hayakawa |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Frank D. Williams |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Exhibitors Mutual Robertson-Cole Distributing Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 50 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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The Man Beneath is a 1919 American silent crime drama film directed by William Worthington and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation.[1] A complete copy of the film is in the collection of the EYE Film Institute Netherlands.[2][3]
Plot
[edit | edit source]As described in a film magazine,[4] Kate Erskine (Eddy) and her sister Mary (Curley) love Dr. Chindi Ashutor (Hayakawa) and James Bassett (Gilbert), respectively, the latter having been college chums, one being a noted physician while the other pursuing no occupation as yet. Mary and Bassett become engaged while Dr. Ashutor goes to aid his countrymen in plague-stricken India. While he is away Bassett receives a summons from the Black Hand, an order he joined in his youth for adventure. Feeling his life in danger, he goes to Dr. Ashutor in India and with his aid almost succeeds in establishing his feigned death as a reality. However, the spies of the order follow them to Scotland and to the home of the Erskines. Here Dr. Ashutor is instrumental in finally ridding Bassett from the menace of the order. Mary and Bassett then marry, while the situation of Kate and Dr. Ashutor remains undecided.
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Cast
[edit | edit source]- Sessue Hayakawa as Dr. Chindi Ashutor
- Helen Jerome Eddy as Kate Erskine
- Pauline Curley as Mary Erskine
- John Gilbert as James Bassett (credited as Jack Gilbert)
- Fontaine La Rue as Countess Petite Florence
- Wedgwood Nowell as François
- Fanny Midgley (uncredited)
Reception
[edit | edit source]Variety's review was mixed, praising the acting but criticizing the editing and intertitles for being confusing.[5]
Moving Picture World's review by Margaret I. MacDonald was positive, calling the film "thrillingly adventurous" and "dramatically romantic."[6]
References
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External links
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- The Man Beneath at IMDbLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Film still at silentera.com
- 1919 films
- Haworth Pictures Corporation films
- Films directed by William Worthington
- 1919 crime drama films
- American crime drama films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent feature films
- Film Booking Offices of America films
- 1910s American films
- American silent drama films
- Silent crime drama film stubs