The Heart of Humanity
AKA {Hearts of Humanity}
(1918) American
B&W : [?} Eight or Nine? reels
Directed by Allan Holubar

Cast: Dorothy Phillips [Nanette], William Stowell [John Patricia], Robert Anderson [Paul Patricia], Walt Whitman [Father Michael], Margaret Mann [Widow Patricia], Erich von Stroheim [Eric Von Eberhard], Lloyd Hughes [Jules Patricia], Frank Braidwood [Maurice Patricia], George Hackathorne [Louis Patricia], Pat O’Malley [Clancy], William Welsh [Prussian officer], Lieutenant Smith [Canadian officer], Joseph Girard [Canadian colonel], Valerie Germonprez [Red Cross ambulance driver], Gloria Joy, [?] Tom London?

The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated, production; distributed by The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated [Jewel; A Universal Special]. / Scenario by Allan Holubar and Olga Scholl, from a story by Allan Holubar and Olga Scholl. Technical advisor Erich von Stroheim. Assistant technical director Sergeant Sidney Flowers. Cinematography by Fred Leroy Granville, Harold Janes, King Gray and A. McClain. Edited by Frank Lawrence and Viola Mallory. Music score arranged by James C. Bradford. Presented by Carl Laemmle. / © 16 January 1919 by Jewel Productions, Incorporated [The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated] [LP13278]. New York premiere 22 December 1918. General release 15 February 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Working title: The Dawn of Reckoning. Erich von Stroheim married actress Valerie Germonprez approximately a year after working together in this film. [?] Some sources list the length as ten reels.

Drama: World War I.

Synopsis: Synopses available in AFI-F1 n. F1.1796, and in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 32.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Em Gee Film Library film collection [16mm reduction positive], and in private film collections [16mm reduction positives].

Keywords: Belgium - Brothers - Canada - Children - Crime: Rape - Death: Suicide (Attempted) - Germans - Insanity - Orphanages - Orphans - Weapons: Guns - Widows - World War I: 28 July 1914-11 November 1918

Listing updated: 2 June 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.1796; Everson-American pp. 187, 370; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 32; Limbacher-Feature p. 105.

Home Video: DVD.