Alien Souls

{{short description|1916 lost silent film directed by Frank Reicher}}

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{{infobox film

| name = Alien Souls

| image = AlienSouls-1917-newspaperad.jpg

| caption = Newspaper advertisement

| director = Frank Reicher

| producer = Jesse Lasky

| story = Margaret Turnbull
Hector Turnbull{{cite news|title=Film Flickerings|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1406711/alien_souls_minor_coverage/|work=Iowa City Press-Citizen |location=Iowa City, Iowa|date=August 24, 1916|page=3|via=Newspapers.com}} {{open access}}

| starring = Sessue Hayakawa
Tsuru Aoki

| music =

| cinematography = Walter Stradling

| editing =

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{film date|1916|5|11}}

| runtime = 5 reels

| country = USA

| language = Silent film (English intertitles)

}}

Alien Souls is a 1916 silent film feature directed by Frank Reicher and starring Sessue Hayakawa, his real-life wife Tsuru Aoki and Earle Foxe. It was developed as a vehicle for Hayakawa after the success of his film The Cheat.{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/1843-ALIEN-SOULS |title=Alien Souls |work=afi.com |access-date=March 21, 2024}}{{cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/A/AlienSouls1916.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: Alien Souls |access-date=March 21, 2024 |publisher=silentera.com}}

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of Alien Souls located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.{{cite web |url=https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3368/ |title=American Silent Feature Film Database: Alien Souls |access-date=March 21, 2024 |publisher=Library of Congress}}

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