The Despoiler
Also known as The Awakening in the USA : [War’s Women] : {The Despoilers}
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 5703 feet
Directed by Reginald Barker
Cast: Frank Keeenan [the emir], Enid Markey [Sylvia Damien], Charles K. French [Colonel Damien], Roy Laidlaw [the mayor], Fanny Midgley [the abbess], Agnes Herring [the nun], J. Frank Burke
New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed on State Rights basis by Triangle Film Corporation. / Produced by Thomas H. Ince. Scenario by J.G. Hawks and Thomas H. Ince, from a screen story by J.G. Hawks and Thomas H. Ince. / © 19 December 1915 (as War’s Women) by Triangle Film Corporation [LP11949]. © 20 June 1916 by Fulton Feature Film Corporation [LP8538]. Released 15 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / After a New York state injunction declared the film immoral, the film was revised and rereleased in the USA in early 1917. The film was rereleased in the USA as The Awakening by Lenox Film Corporation in January 1920.
Drama: War.
Survival status: (unknown)
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: War: World War I
Listing updated: 26 April 2010.
References: Fell-History p. 109 : Website-AFI.
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