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Writers:
Hector Turnbull (scenario) and
Jeanie Macpherson (scenario)
Release Date:
13 December 1915 (USA) more
Plot:
A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader to replace the stolen money. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
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(2 articles)
DVD Playhouse: April 2009
(From The Hollywood Interview. 11 April 2009, 11:58 AM, PDT)
This Week On DVD and Blu-ray: April 7, 2009
(From Rope Of Silicon. 7 April 2009, 1:36 AM, PDT)
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a shadow from the past more (27 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Fannie Ward | ... | Edith Hardy |
| Sessue Hayakawa | ... | Hishuru Tori (original release) / Haka Arakau (in 1918 re-release) |
| Jack Dean | ... | Richard Hardy |
| James Neill | ... | Jones |
| Yutaka Abe | ... | Tori's Valet |
| Dana Ong | ... | District Attorney |
| Hazel Childers | ... | Mrs. Reynolds |
| Arthur H. Williams | ... | Courtroom Judge (as Judge Arthur H. Williams) |
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59 min (1994 alternate version)
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Because of a protest from the Japanese Association of Southern California, Sessue Hayakawa's name and nationality was changed for the 1918 re-release. Originally he was a Japanese called Hishuru Tori; in the re-issue he was a Burmese called Haka Arakau. more
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Continuity: According to the date on the check, the shooting occurred on September 17th. However, the next day's newspaper which reports the crime is dated April 27th. more
Quotes:
Haka Arakau: [to Edith] You cannot cheat me twice. more
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Featured in Why Be Good? Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007) more
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Funny how one can be transfixed by a shadow made nearly ninety years ago. I found myself watching this for handsome Sessue Hayakawa's character, half all-American young-man-about-town, half exotic (and oh yes, evil) Oriental despot. Fannie Ward's character doesn't look much better, a woman so insecure and vain that when her husband cuts off her clothing allowance (four hundred 1915 dollars for a negligee!!), she embezzles Red Cross funds and takes a flyer on the stock market. Indeed, the only character who comes out looking remotely virtuous is her long-suffering husband, who tries to protect his bubble-headed wife by confessing to a crime she committed. Yes, it's a period piece, but as those go, it's not bad.