The Lone Wolf's Daughter

1919

The Lone Wolf's Daughter is a surviving[1] 1919 American silent era crime/drama/thriller motion picture starring Bertram Grassby, Louise Glaum, and Thomas Holding.[2]

Directed by William P.S. Earle and produced by J. Parker Read, Jr., the screenplay and the intertitles were adapted by Louis Joseph Vance based on his novels about the Lone Wolf, a jewel thief turned private detective.[3]

Filmed at Thomas H. Ince Studios in Culver City, The Lone Wolf's Daughter was billed as the sequel to The Lone Wolf (1917) and The False Faces (1919). The movie premiered in Chicago. It was not exhibited in Los Angeles until January 12, 1920.

Glaum was acknowledged as a fashion plate for "wearing at least fifty different and striking gowns."[4]

The story is set in London, England. Princess Sonia (played by Glaum) and her husband, exiled Russian nobleman Prince Victor (played by Stevens), are at an auction. She is bidding against him in an effort to obtain a Corot landscape that has incriminating letters she wrote hidden inside. The painting is purchased by Michael Lanyard (played by Grassby), who is suspected of being the mysterious international thief the "Lone Wolf".

Lanyard gives the letters to Princess Sonia. She then divorces Prince Victor and marries Lanyard. With malevolent hatred, Victor threatens to follow Lanyard "to the very gates of Hell". Lanyard replies, "If you do, then I'll push you inside." Princess Sonia dies after giving birth to their daughter, Sonia. Lanyard is unaware that he has a daughter.

Years later, Sonia (also played by Glaum) has grown up not knowing of her parentage or past. She thinks she is the daughter of Princess Sonia's maid. Sonia is found by Prince Victor, who is now the leader of an underworld gang of Oriental criminals and Bolsheviks. Telling her that he is her father, he brings her to his home in the hope it will entice Lanyard to make an appearance. She falls in love with Roger Karslake (played by Holding), who is Victor's secretary.

When Sonia learns of the gang's diabolical plan to have poisonous gas pumped into the Houses of Parliament, the homes of Downing Street and of the nobility, even Buckingham Palace, in order to clear the way for Victor to become England's dictator, she tells Karslake.

Unbeknownst to Sonia or the gang, Lanyard has actually been working in the household, posing as Victor's Oriental butler, and he and Karslake are both Scotland Yard agents. Lanyard learns that she is, in fact, his daughter. Following Sonia's recognition of her father, the Lone Wolf, he and Karslake capture the gang amidst a blazing house fire and a huge fight. Victor makes his way to the roof pursued by Lanyard, who shoves the evil prince down into the flames.

A Los Angeles Times review of Saturday, January 11, 1920, reads:

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:1919
weitere Titel:
The Lone Wolf's Daughter pl ast nb
La figlia del lupo solitario
De dochter van de eenzamen wolf
Den ensomme Ulv (film fra 1919)
Genre:Thriller, Kriminalfilm, Stummfilm, Filmdrama
Herstellungsland:Vereinigte Staaten
Originalsprache:
Farbe:Schwarzweiß
Verleih:Pathé Exchange, W.W. Hodkinson Distribution
Regie:William P. S. Earle
Drehbuch:Louis Joseph Vance
Kamera:Charles J. Stumar
Darsteller:Bertram Grassby
Louise Glaum
Edwin Stevens
Thomas Holding
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