The Dark Mirror (1920 film)
{{short description|1920 film by Charles Giblyn}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Dark Mirror
| image = The Dark Mirror (1920) - Ad 1.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Ad for film
| director = Charles Giblyn
| producer = Thomas H. Ince
| screenplay = E. Magnus Ingleton
| based_on = {{based on|The Dark Mirror|Louis Joseph Vance}}
| starring = Dorothy Dalton
Huntley Gordon
Walter D. Nealand
Jessie Arnold
Lucille Carney
Pedro de Cordoba
Donald MacPherson
| music =
| cinematography = John Stumar
| editing =
| studio = Famous Players–Lasky Corporation
| distributor = Paramount Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1920|5|9}}
| runtime = 50 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Dark Mirror is a 1920 American silent horror-drama film and horror film directed by Charles Giblyn and written by E. Magnus Ingleton, based upon the story of the same name by Louis Joseph Vance. The film stars Dorothy Dalton in a dual role, Huntley Gordon, Walter D. Nealand, Jessie Arnold, Lucille Carney, Pedro de Cordoba, and Donald MacPherson. The film was released on May 9, 1920, by Paramount Pictures.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/131016/The-Dark-Mirror/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119034731/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/131016/The-Dark-Mirror/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 19, 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Hal Erickson|title=The-Dark-Mirror - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2015|accessdate=January 19, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=1&Movie=2052|title=The Dark Mirror|work=afi.com|accessdate=January 19, 2015}} It is listed as Jericho in some film reference guides.Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 214.{{ISBN|978-1936168-68-2}}. The film survives.{{cite web | url=https://wfpp.cdrs.columbia.edu/pioneer/ccp-eugenie-magnus-ingleton/ | title=Eugenie Magnus Ingleton – Women Film Pioneers Project }}{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1761/default.html |title=The Dark Mirror / Charles Giblyn [motion picture] |publisher=Library of Congress |date= |accessdate=November 15, 2020}}
Plot
As described in a film magazine,{{cite journal |title=Reviews: The Dark Mirror |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=10 |issue=22 |page=73 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=May 29, 1920 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald10exhi_0}} New York society member Priscilla Maine (Dalton) is troubled by strange dreams in which she vividly sees members of the underworld involved in a murder. She confides this to her admirer, Dr. Philip Fosdick (Gordon), who undertakes to solve the mystery. As if to make her dreams come true, a gang of thugs mistakes her for Nora, a belle of the Bowery, and kidnaps her. Nora (Dalton) is known to be gangster Red Carnahan's (Nealand) girl, but is loved by the Spaniard, Mario Gonzales (de Cordoba). Mario rescues Nora from Red's clutches, marries her, and brings her to New Jersey. Red and his gang search for them, and when Red discovers the real Nora, he drowns her. Priscilla is rescued by Mario, who thinks she is his wife Nora, not realizing that Nora has been murdered. Dr. Fosdick is attempting to explain the true circumstances to Mario at his New Jersey retreat when Priscilla looks out the window and sees Red Carnahan on the shore of a nearby lake. She rushes out just as Red is drawing a woman's dead body from the water. Red is horrified to see Priscilla, an exact counterpart of the dead Nora, and drowns himself in superstitious terror. It turns out that Priscilla's father had married a gypsy woman with whom he had two twin daughters, Nora and Priscilla, and Nora was taken away by the gypsy when she ran away one day. The mystery resolved, Priscilla consents to wed Dr. Fosdick.
Cast
- Dorothy Dalton as Priscilla Maine / Nora O'Moore
- Huntley Gordon as Dr. Philip Fosdick
- Walter D. Nealand as Red Carnahan
- Jessie Arnold as Inez
- Lucille Carney as Addy
- Pedro de Cordoba as Mario Gonzales
- Donald MacPherson as The Nut
- Bert Starkey as Charlie the Coke
References
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External links
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- {{IMDb title|t0011094|The Dark Mirror}}
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Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Silent horror drama films
Category:American horror drama films
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:1920s horror drama films
Category:Paramount Pictures films
Category:Films directed by Charles Giblyn
Category:American black-and-white films