Smouldering Fires
(1924) American
B&W : Eight reels / 7356 feet
Directed by Clarence Brown

Cast: Pauline Frederick [Jane Vale], Laura La Plante [Dorothy], Malcolm McGregor [Robert Elliott], Tully Marshall [Scotty], Wanda Hawley [Lucy], Helen Lynch [Kate Brown], George Cooper [Mugsy], Bert Roach [committee member], Billy Gould [committee member], Rolfe Sedan [committee member], Jack McDonald [committee member], William Orlamond [committee member], Robert Mack [committee member], Frank Newberg [committee member]

Universal Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Universal Pictures Corporation [Universal-Jewel]. / Scenario by Sada Cowan, Howard Higgin and Melville Brown, from a screen story by Margaret Deland, Sada Cowan and Howard Higgin. Art direction by Leo E. Kuter and E.E. Sheeley. Assistant director Charles Dorian. Cinematography by Jackson Rose. Intertitles by Dwinelle Benthall. Edited by Edward Schroeder. / © 25 November 1924 by Universal Pictures Corporation [LP20842]. Released [?] 7 December 1924 or 18 January 1925? / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in Hirschhorn-Universal p. 49.

Survival Status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive].

Keywords: Businesswomen - Divorce - Love triangles - Self-sacrifice

Listing updated: 17 April 2008.

References: Brownlow-Parade pp. 138, 145, 290; Card-Seductive p. 52; Drew-Speaking pp. 90, 95, 97, 277; Everson-American pp. 13, 14, 202, 283, 315, 331-332; FilmDaily-1926 p. 55; Higashi-Virgins pp. 101, 108-109; Hirschhorn-Universal p. 49; Limbacher-Feature p. 226; Vermilye-Twenties p. 126 : ClasIm-240 p. 44 : Website-AFI.

Home video: DVD.