The Man Beneath
(1919) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by William Worthington

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa [Doctor Chindi Ashutor], Helen Jerome Eddy [Kate Erskine], Pauline Curley [Mary Erskine], Jack Gilbert (John Gilbert) [James Bassett], Fountain La Rue [Countess Petite Florence], Wedgewood Nowell [François]

The Haworth Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Robertson-Cole Company through Exhibitors Mutual Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by L.V. Jefferson, from the novel Only a Nigger by Edmund Mitchell. Technical direction by Frank D. Ormstrom. Cinematography by Frank D. Williams. / © 10 June 1919 by The Haworth Pictures Corporation [LU13807]. Released 6 July 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama: Crime.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.2748.

Survival Status: Incomplete prints exist in the Nederlands Filmmuseum film archive [35mm nitrate positive (Dutch-language intertitles, reels 2-3 and 5 only), 35mm preservation negative and 35mm preservation positives (reels 2-3 and 5 only)].

Listing updated: 5 February 2008.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.2748 : ClasIm-223 pp. 20, 22 : with additional information provided by Elif Rongen-Kaynakci.