Less Than the Dust
(1916) American
B&W : Seven reels
Directed by John Emerson

Cast: Mary Pickford [Radha], David Powell [Captain Richard Townsend], Frank Losee [Captain Bradshaw], Mary Alden [Mrs. Bradshaw], Mario Majeroni [Ramlan], Cesare Gravina [Jawan], Francis Joyner [derelict], Russell Bassett [Ahmed], Walter Morgan [Bhesstie], Mercita Esmonde [gossip], Nathaniel Sack, Erich von Stroheim

Mary Pickford Film Corporation production; distributed by Artcraft Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Hector Turnbull. Assistant directors Edwin L. Hollywood and Erich O.H. Von Stroheim (Erich von Stroheim). Cinematography by George W. Hill. / Released [?] October? 1916. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / The first film from Pickford’s production company and the first release from Artcraft.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2449.

Survival Status: Prints exist in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm duplicate safety negative (incomplete, reels 1-6, duplicated 1956), 16mm reference reduction positive (incomplete, reels 1-6, struck 1956)]; in the International Museum of Photography and Film at George Eastman House film archive [16mm reference reduction positive (incomplete, reels 1-6, struck 1956)]; in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm color-tinted nitrate (incomplete, reel one fragment)]; and in the Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education film collection [35mm duplicate preservation negative, 35mm reference positive].

Keywords: India - Indians - United Kingdom: England

Listing updated: 19 September 2007.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2449; Everson-American pp. 122-123; Eyman-Pickford pp. 89, 329 : Website-Legacy; Website-Pickford.