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Enoch Arden
AKA As Fate Ordained and The Fatal Marriage in the USA
(1915) American
B&W : Four reels
Directed by William Christy Cabanne

Cast: Alfred Paget, Lillian Gish, Wallace Reid, Betty Marsh, [?] Mildred Harris?, [?] D.W. Griffith?, [?] Dame May Witty?

Majestic Motion Picture Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Mutual Masterpicture]. / Scenario by D.W. Griffith, from the poem “Enoch Arden” by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Production supervision by D.W. Griffith. Cinematography by William E. Fildew. / Released 8 April 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA at five reels by R-C Picture Corporation in 1922.

Drama: Historical.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1173.

Survival Status: Print exists.

Keywords: Bigamy - Castaways - Children: Orphans - Fishermen - Fishing villages - Friendship - Islands - Rescues - Self-sacrifice - Shipwrecks - United Kingdom: England

Listing updated: 30 March 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1173; Lahue-Triangle p. 121; Slide-Aspects p. 22; Tarbox-Lost pp. 227, 247; Weaver-Twenty p. 146.

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