Broken Barriers (1924 film)
{{short description|1924 film by Reginald Barker}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Broken Barriers
| image = Broken Barriers lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Reginald Barker
| producer =
| writer = Sada Cowan
Howard Higgin
| based_on = {{based on|Broken Barriers|Meredith Nicholson}}
| starring = James Kirkwood
Norma Shearer
Adolphe Menjou
| music =
| cinematography = Percy Hilburn (*French)
| editing =
| distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
| released = {{Film date|1924|08|03|United States}}
| runtime = 60 mins.
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Broken Barriers is a 1924 American silent drama film starring James Kirkwood, Norma Shearer, and Adolphe Menjou. Directed by Reginald Barker, the film is based upon the novel of the same name by Meredith Nicholson.{{cite book|editor=White Munden, Kenneth|title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930|year=1997|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-20969-9|page=91}}[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/B/BrokenBarriers1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: Broken Barriers] at the silentera.com database
Plot
Grace Durland (Shearer) is a young debutante who is forced to leave college when her father goes bankrupt. While working for a living, she falls in love with Ward Trenton (Kirkwood) who is married. As she reveals her love for a married man to her family, the reaction is very negative. Ward's evil wife refuses to grant him a divorce. This changes when he is injured in a car accident.
Cast
- James Kirkwood as Ward Trenton
- Norma Shearer as Grace Durland
- Adolphe Menjou as Tommy Kemp
- Mae Busch as Irene Kirby
- George Fawcett as Mr. Durland
- Margaret McWade as Mrs. Durland
- Robert Agnew as Bobbie Durland
- Ruth Stonehouse as Ethel Durland
- Robert Frazer as John Moore
- Winifred Bryson as Mrs. Ward Trenton
- Vera Reynolds as Sadie Denton
- Edythe Chapman as Beulah Reynolds
- George Kuwa as Chang
Preservation
With no copies of Broken Barriers located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4009/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Broken Barriers] it is a lost film.
References
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External links
{{commons category|Broken Barriers (1924 film)}}
- {{IMDb title|0014746}}
{{Reginald Barker}}
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Films based on American novels
Category:Films directed by Reginald Barker
Category:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Category:1920s English-language films
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