Camille of the Barbary Coast

1925 film

Mae Busch
Owen Moore
Fritzi Brunette

CinematographyFrank Zucker

Production
company

Encore Pictures

Distributed byAssociated Exhibitors
Ideal Films (UK)

Release date

November 1, 1925 (1925-11-01)

Running time

60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Camille of the Barbary Coast is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Hugh Dierker that starred Mae Busch, Owen Moore, and Fritzi Brunette.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine reviews,^[2] Bob Norton, thoroughly soured on humanity in general, has just left the penitentiary where he served a two-year sentence for larceny, following his wealthy father's refusal to help him. Dejected, and with only four of the ten dollars given him on his release left, he wanders into a Barbary Coast dance hall and meets Camille. His sportsmanship in parting with his last dollar for a bottle of wine for her appeals to the girl. She tries to help him, but her insistence upon lending him money is of no avail, but she succeeds in forcing him to allow her to provide a place for him to sleep until he finds work. All her best instincts come to the surface in mothering him, at the same time working out her own salvation, and making a real man of him. The father, Henry Norton, has been secretly watching his son's regeneration and accepts the young woman at her true worth as his son's wife.

Cast

Mae Busch as Camille Balishaw
Owen Moore as Robert Morton
Fritzi Brunette as Maggie Smith
Burr McIntosh as Henry Norton
Harry T. Morey as Dan McCarthy
Tammany Young as Barbary Bennie
Dorothy Janis as Dora Malcolm
William Robert Daly as Chauncey Hilburn
Dagmar Godowsky as Sonia Ivanoria

References

^ Munden p. 107
^ "New Pictures: Camille of the Barbary Coast", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (7), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 63, August 8, 1925, retrieved July 16, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Bibliography

Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.