The Unguarded Hour (1925 film)
{{short description|1925 film}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = The Unguarded Hour
| image = The Unguarded Hour (1925) - 1.jpg
| caption = Advertisement
| director = Lambert Hillyer
| producer =
| writer = John W. Krafft
Joseph F. Poland
Margaretta Tuttle
| narrator =
| starring = Milton Sills
Doris Kenyon
Claude King
| music =
| editing = Arthur Tavares
| cinematography = Roy Carpenter
| studio = First National Pictures
| distributor = First National Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1925|11|22}}
| runtime = 70 minutes
| country = United States
| language = Silent (English intertitles)
| budget =
| gross =
}}
The Unguarded Hour is a 1925 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, and Claude King.Munden p. 748 The film's sets were designed by the art director Milton Menasco.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/U/UnguardedHour1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Unguarded Hour] at silentera.com
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Sumner |author-link= |title=Through the Box Office Window: The Unguarded Hour; Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon in Emotional and Gripping Story that Should Please Fans |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=77 |issue=5 |pages=481 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=5 December 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/movpicwor77movi/page/n446/mode/1up |access-date=16 October 2021}} {{Source-attribution}} Bryce Gilbert (King), business man, shows his daughter Virginia (Kenyon) the folly of an intended elopement with a youth. She goes to Italy and meets Duke Andrea d'Arona (Sills), a young and handsome man, who is puzzled by her jazzy American ways and doubts her character. Virginia is found with a certain male flirt in her room and misunderstood until it develops that the duke's sister (Cassinelli) has been misled by the male flirt and is listening in another room. The sister kills herself and the tragedy brings the duke and the young American woman to an understanding of their love.
Cast
{{Cast listing|
- Milton Sills as Andrea
- Doris Kenyon as Virginia Gilbert
- Claude King as Bryce Gilbert
- Dolores Cassinelli as Duchess Bianca
- Cornelius Keefe as Russell Van Alstyne
- Jed Prouty as Gus O'Rorick, a Yeggman
- Tammany Young as Another Yeggman
- Charles Byer as Stelio
- Lorna Duveen as Elena
- Vivia Ogden as Annie, the Maid
- J. Moy Bennett as Butler
- Laura Wood as Virginia Gilbert's swimming double
}}
Preservation
With no prints of The Unguarded Hour located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10157/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Unguarded Hour] 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
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- {{IMDb title|0016472}}
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Category:1925 comedy-drama films
Category:Films directed by Lambert Hillyer
Category:American silent feature films
Category:American black-and-white films
Category:First National Pictures films
Category:Films with screenplays by Joseph F. Poland
Category:1920s English-language films
Category:Silent American comedy-drama films
Category:English-language comedy-drama films
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