Flower of Night
{{short description|1925 film by Paul Bern}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Flower of Night
| image = Flower of Night lobby card.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = Paul Bern
| producer = Adolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
| writer = Willis Goldbeck (scenario)
| story = Joseph Hergesheimer
| starring = Pola Negri
| music =
| cinematography = Bert Glennon
| editing =
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1925|10|18}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
}}
Flower of Night is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Paul Bern. Famous Players–Lasky produced the film with Paramount Pictures releasing. Joseph Hergesheimer provided an original story for the screen.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/AbbrView.aspx?s=&Movie=1461 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Flower of the Night][http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/F/FlowerOfNight1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Flower of Night] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: Flower of Night |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=57–58 |date=10 October 1925 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=Chicago, Illinois |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald22unse/page/330/mode/1up |access-date=8 October 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} Don Giraldo y Villalon and his daughter Carlota, high caste Spaniards living in California at the time of the gold rush, are dispossessed of most of their land holdings, including the Flor de Noche mine in the hills above their hacienda. John Basset has come from the East to assist the superintendent of the mine. He stops at the hacienda to learn the way to the mine, and, at sight of him, Carlota loves him. She accepts an invitation to a miners’ dance, to which she goes only that she may see Basset again. Basset, disgusted with the revel, ignores her. When she returns home and tells her father she has disgraced herself and the family name he commits suicide. Carlota goes to San Francisco and becomes a dance hall entertainer. She meets Luke Rand, leader of the Vigilantes, and makes love to him in an effort to win Basset, who scorns her. Rand tries to confiscate the Flor de Noche mine to win Carlota. Basset in defending the mine is wounded and Carlota, altering her mind, helps him escape. Rand overtakes them, and in the fight that ensues Basset kills him. The love note is the loudest one as the story ends.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Joseph J. Dowling as Don Geraldo y Villalón (credited as Joseph Dowling)
- Pola Negri as Carlota, Don Geraldo's daughter
- Youcca Troubetzkoy as John Basset
- Warner Oland as Luke Rand
- Ed Brady as Derck Bylandt (credited as Edwin J. Brady)
- Eulalie Jensen as Mrs. Bylandt
- Cesare Gravina as Servant
- Gustav von Seyffertitz as Vigilante Leader
- Helen Lee Worthing as Josefa
- Anastasia Georgina Kissel (credited as Thais Valdemar)
- Manuel Acosta
- Frankie Bailey
- Buck Black (uncredited)
}}
Preservation
With no prints of Flower of Night located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5325/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Flower of the Night] it is a lost film.
References
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External links
{{commons category|Flower of Night}}
- {{IMDb title|0015825}}
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Category:American silent feature films
Category:Lost American drama films
Category:Films based on short fiction
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:American black-and-white films
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