The Mansion of Aching Hearts
1925 film
- February 27, 1925 (1925-02-27)
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The Mansion of Aching Hearts is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by James P. Hogan and starring Ethel Clayton, Barbara Bedford, and Priscilla Bonner.[1][2]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,[3] believing his wife is unfaithful, Martin Craig sends his with Pauline and their child away. The mother looses the child while on a boat, after which the father locates it and rears it as a stranger without a last name, to be called Bill Smith. The mother, believing the child has drowned, goes to a home for friendless pregnant young women and becomes its matron. Later, she returns to the home of her son only to find that he has been taught to promise vengeance upon her for bringing him into the world nameless. A mob forms intending to chase her from the town. However, she meets Martin and forces him to publicly admit the truth that she is innocent, whereupon she and the son are admitted to respectability. A reunion between the three follows.
Cast
- Ethel Clayton as Pauline Craig
- Barbara Bedford as Martha
- Priscilla Bonner as A City Girl
- Philo McCullough as John Dawson
- Edward Delaney as A City Boy
- Cullen Landis as Bill Smith
- Sam De Grasse as Martin Craig
- Eddie Phillips as A 'Sheik'
- Eddie Gribbon as Fritz Dahlgren
- Helen Hoge as Bill, as a child
Preservation
The film is currently lost.[4]
References
- ^ Goble p. 858
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Mansion of Aching Hearts at silentera.com
- ^ "New Pictures: The Mansion of Aching Hearts", Exhibitors Herald, 21 (4): 63–64, April 18, 1925, retrieved January 18, 2022
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database:The Mansion of Aching Hearts
Bibliography
- Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
External links
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- The Mansion of Aching Hearts at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
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Films directed by James P. Hogan
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- The Little Grey Mouse (1920)
- Bare Knuckles (1921)
- Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight? (1922)
- Black Lightning (1924)
- Unmarried Wives (1924)
- The Bandit's Baby (1925)
- Women and Gold (1925)
- Capital Punishment (1925)
- Jimmie's Millions (1925)
- My Lady's Lips (1925)
- The Mansion of Aching Hearts (1925)
- S.O.S. Perils of the Sea (1925)
- Steel Preferred (1925)
- The King of the Turf (1926)
- The Isle of Retribution (1926)
- Flaming Fury (1926)
- The Final Extra (1927)
- Mountains of Manhattan (1927)
- Finnegan's Ball (1927)
- The Silent Avenger (1927)
- The Border Patrol (1928)
- Burning Bridges (1928)
- Code of the Air (1928)
- The Broken Mask (1928)
- Top Sergeant Mulligan (1928)
- Hearts of Men (1928)
- The Sheriff's Secret (1931)
- The Seventh Commandment (1932)
- Paradise Valley (1934)
- Desert Gold (1936)
- The Arizona Raiders (1936)
- The Accusing Finger (1936)
- Arizona Mahoney (1936)
- The Last Train from Madrid (1937)
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- Ebb Tide (1937)
- Sons of the Legion (1938)
- The Texans (1938)
- Scandal Street (1938)
- Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
- Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)
- Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)
- $1,000 a Touchdown (1939)
- Grand Jury Secrets (1939)
- Bulldog Drummond's Bride (1939)
- The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
- Queen of the Mob (1940)
- Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
- Power Dive (1941)
- Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941)
- Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
- Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery (1941)
- A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942)
- Enemy Agents Meet Ellery Queen (1942)
- A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen (1942)
- The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943)
- The Mad Ghoul (1943)
- No Place for a Lady (1943)
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