Auction of Souls
AKA [Ravished Armenia]
(1919) American
B&W : Eight reels / 7820 feet
Directed by Oscar Apfel

Cast: Irving Cummings [Andranik], Anna Q. Nilsson [Edith Graham], Henry Morganthau [himself], Aurora Mardiganian [herself], Lillian West, Eugenie Besserer, Frank Clark, Howard Davies, Hector Dion, Miles McCarthy

[?] Selig Studios or The Selig Polyscope Company, Incorporated? production for the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief; distributed by First National Exhibitors’ Circuit, Incorporated. / Produced by William N. Selig. Scenario by [?] Nora Waln and/or Frederic Chapin?, from the book Ravished Armenia by Aurora Mardiganian and H.L. Gates (Henry Leyford Gates). / © 7 February 1922 by Associated First National Pictures, Incorporated [LP17531]. Released 19 January 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working titles: Ravished Armenia and Armenia Crucified. Some location photography was taken at Mount Baldy, California. The film may have been misidentified by the Pennsylvania Censor Board as an [?] Aras? production titled An Armenian Crucifixion (1918?) at five reels.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.0177.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Americans (Abroad) - Armenians - USA: California: Mount Baldy

Listing updated: 24 February 2007.

References: AFI-F1 nn. F1.0147, F1.0177; AFI-F2 n. F2.0199; Balakian-Burning p. 313; Weaver-Twenty p. 50 : Website-IMDb.