Scandal

Name: Scandal
Genre: Drama
Released: 1915-07-19
Duration: 50 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Lois Weber, Phillips Smalley, Rupert Julian

19151915
50m

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Drama

The story opens with the male gossips inside the club gazing from the window and making comments on the passers-by. Green, a member of the club, lives in the apartment beneath that of Willia... Read allThe story opens with the male gossips inside the club gazing from the window and making comments on the passers-by. Green, a member of the club, lives in the apartment beneath that of William Wright, a broker. Wright is in business difficulties, but his business associates have n... Read allThe story opens with the male gossips inside the club gazing from the window and making comments on the passers-by. Green, a member of the club, lives in the apartment beneath that of William Wright, a broker. Wright is in business difficulties, but his business associates have not yet learned this, as his wife's father has promised to relieve the situation with a loa... Read all

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6.1/10

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Directors
- Phillips Smalley
- Lois Weber
Writer
- Lois Weber(scenario)
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Grace Johnson, Marie Kiernan, and Phillips Smalley in Scandal (1915)

Grace Johnson, Marie Kiernan, and Jim Mason in Scandal (1915)

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6/10

Gossip

Lois Weber is a stenographer in Phillips Smalley's office. When she sprains her ankle, Smalley drives her home and lets her work there for a few days. Gossips make an affair of this. His wife leaves him, his business collapses and he almost shoots himself. Meanwhile, Miss Weber marries "the first man who offers her protection"; a letter from Rupert Julian, asking her to wait, arrives after the ceremony.

Life continues seemingly well enough, but her new husband finds the letter from Julian: its last sentence.

The copy of the movie in PIONEERS: FIRST WOMEN FILMMAKERS is in poor condition. It was one of the movies recovered from Dawson City, shows considerable damage and misses reel 4 and the ending. Dal Clawson's beautiful camerawork is mostly obscured, and the symbolic touches of the movie -- mostly a man wearing a suit made of twigs that covers everything but his mouth -- seem melodramatic and a bit silly. Nonetheless, in the movie that survives is a powerful message about the corroding effect of gossip and evil-mindedness. Miss Weber would explore this more conventionally in one of her last silent movies, SENSATION SEEKERS.

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