Enticement
{{short description|1925 film}}
{{For|a general use|Seduction}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Enticement
| image = Enticement-Silver-Sheet-1924-FC.jpg
| caption = The Silver Sheet, front cover (1924)
| director = George Archainbaud
| producer = Thomas H. Ince
| screenplay = Bradley King
| based_on = {{based on|Enticement|Clive Arden}}
| starring = {{ubl|Mary Astor|Clive Brook|Ian Keith}}
| music =
| editing =
| cinematography = Henry Sharp
| studio = Thomas H. Ince Corporation
| distributor = First National Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1925|02|01}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Enticement is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by George Archainbaud and starring Mary Astor, Clive Brook, and Ian Keith.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/E/Enticement1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Enticement] at silentera.comGoble p. 13
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Sumner |author-link= |title=Enticement; Mary Astor Has Splendid Emotional Role in Gripping First National Drama |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=72 |issue=6 |pages=586 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=7 February 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor72janf/page/586/mode/1up |access-date=23 August 2021}} Leonore Bewlay (Astor), recently grown into womanhood, while in Switzerland meets a childhood friend, Richard Valyran (Keith), who has become an opera singer. When she is injured, she is shocked into a bewilderment of panic and flees when, as he undresses her to assist, he also kisses her. She marries Henry Wallis (Brook), a devout Englishman, but is disliked by his relatives. Val's wife names Leonore as a correspondent in her divorce suit and Henry loses faith in her. She goes to Val, who still loves her, but he refuses her when he learns that she still loves Henry. In order to free her from any notoriety, Val kills himself. Henry, awed by this sacrifice, takes Leonore back and they find happiness together.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Mary Astor as Leonore Bewlay{{cite web |url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=8847 |title=Enticement |website=AFI Catalog of Feature Films |publisher=American Film Institute |access-date=July 23, 2016}}
- Clive Brook as Henry Wallis
- Ian Keith as Richard Valyran
- Louise Dresser as Mrs. Samuel Murray
- Edgar Norton as William Blake
- Vera Lewis as Mrs. Blake
- Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Edward Merley
- Lorimer Johnston as Edward Merley
- Maxine Elliott Hicks as Olive Merley
- Fenwick Oliver as Mr. Kerry
- Florence Wix as Mrs. Kerry
- George Bunny as The bishop
- Roland Bottomley as Bevington
- Aileen Manning as The old maid
}}
Preservation
With no prints of Enticement located in any film archives,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5002/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Catalog: Enticement] it is a lost film.[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arnefirstnational.html Enticement at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:lost First National films - 1925]
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
{{Commons category|Enticement}}
- {{AFI film | 8847 | Enticement}}
- {{IMDb title|0015781}}
{{George Archainbaud}}
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:Films directed by George Archainbaud
Category:American silent feature films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:First National Pictures films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:English-language drama films
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