The Mansion of Aching Hearts
{{short description|1925 film}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox film
| name = The Mansion of Aching Hearts
| image = The Mansion of Aching Hearts poster.jpg
| caption = Lobby card
| director = James P. Hogan
| producer = B.P. Schulberg
| based_on =
| writer = Frederick Stowers
| narrator =
| starring = Ethel Clayton
Barbara Bedford
Priscilla Bonner
| music =
| cinematography = Harry Perry
| editing =
| studio = B.P. Schulberg Productions
| distributor = Preferred Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1925|02|27}}
| runtime = 60 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Mansion of Aching Hearts is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Ethel Clayton, Barbara Bedford, and Priscilla Bonner.Goble p. 858[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/MansionOfAchingHearts1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Mansion of Aching Hearts] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: The Mansion of Aching Hearts |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=4 |pages=63–64 |date=18 April 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/n500/mode/1up |access-date=18 January 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} believing his wife is unfaithful, Martin Craig sends his with Pauline and their child away. The mother loses the child while on a boat, after which the father locates it and rears it as a stranger without a last name, to be called Bill Smith. The mother, believing the child has drowned, goes to a home for friendless pregnant young women and becomes its matron. Later, she returns to the home of her son only to find that he has been taught to promise vengeance upon her for bringing him into the world nameless. A mob forms intending to chase her from the town. However, she meets Martin and forces him to publicly admit the truth that she is innocent, whereupon she and the son are admitted to respectability. A reunion between the three follows.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Ethel Clayton as Pauline Craig
- Barbara Bedford as Martha
- Priscilla Bonner as A City Girl
- Philo McCullough as John Dawson
- Edward Delaney as A City Boy
- Cullen Landis as Bill Smith
- Sam De Grasse as Martin Craig
- Eddie Phillips as A 'Sheik'
- Eddie Gribbon as Fritz Dahlgren
- Helen Hoge as Bill, as a child
}}
Preservation
References
{{reflist}}
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
{{commons category|The Mansion of Aching Hearts}}
- {{IMDb title|0016089}}
{{James P. Hogan}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mansion Of Aching Hearts}}
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:American silent feature films
Category:Silent American drama films
Category:Films directed by James Patrick Hogan
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:Preferred Pictures films
{{Silent-drama-film-stub}}