Flattery (film)
{{short description|1925 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Flattery
| image = Flattery (film).jpg
| caption =
| director = Tom Forman
| producer =
| writer = H.H. Van Loan
| narrator =
| starring = John Bowers
Marguerite De La Motte
Alan Hale
| music =
| cinematography = King D. Gray
Harry Perry
| editing =
| studio = Mission Film Corporation
| distributor = Chadwick Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1925|02|15}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
Flattery is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Tom Forman and starring John Bowers, Marguerite De La Motte, and Alan Hale.Munden p. 253
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Sumner |author-link= |title=Flattery; Excellent Acting and Smashing Climax Feature Chadwick Production |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=71 |issue=2 |pages=173 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=8 November 1924 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor71novd/page/173/mode/1up |access-date=7 April 2021}} Reginald Mallory (Bowers) has been susceptible to flattery since youth. Politicians make him city engineer so that they may have a “goat,” and he is wheedled into signing a contract without reading it. All lose faith in Mallory except Betty Biddle (De La Motte), his sweetheart, daughter of the president of a construction company. Mallory apparently plays the game and turns crooked, but in the end it is discovered that he has been obtaining evidence against the crooks.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- John Bowers as Reginald Mallory
- Marguerite De La Motte as Betty Biddle
- Alan Hale as Arthur Barrington
- Grace Darmond as Allene King
- Edwards Davis as John Biddle
- Louis Morrison as Mayor
- Larry Steers as District Attorney
- Newton Hall (uncredited)
}}
Preservation
With no prints of Flattery located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5311/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Flattery] it is a lost film.
References
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Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links
- {{IMDb title|0015822}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Films directed by Tom Forman
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:English-language drama films
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