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  Robert Edeson and Muriel Ostriche.
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Mortmain
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Theodore Marston

Cast: Robert Edeson [Mortmain], Donald Hall [Gordon Russell], Edward Elkas [Flaggs], Joseph Weber [Flynt], Muriel Ostriche [Bella Forsythe], Karin Norman [Miss Fickles], James Morrison [Tom Forsythe], J. Herbert Frank [Doctor Pennison Crisp], Gladden James [Scalscope], Roland Osborne [Mortmain’s butler], Helen Pillsbury [a society lady]

The Vitagraph Company of America production; distributed by V-L-S-E, Incorporated [A Blue Ribbon Feature]. / Scenario by Marguerite Bertsch, from the novel Mortmain by Arthur C. Train. Production supervision by J. Stuart Blackton. Cinematography by Reginald Edgar Lyons and Arthur T. Quinn. / © 25 August 1915 by The Vitagraph Company of America [LP6195]. Premiered 29 August 1915 by the Vitagraph Theatre in New York, New York. Released 6 September 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama: Horror.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Bankers - Crime: Blackmail, Murder - Death: Murder - Medical: Doctors

Listing updated: 17 September 2019.

References: Tarbox-Lost p. 250 : Website-AFI.

 
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