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Valda Valkyrien and Robert Frazer.
Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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Bolshevism on Trial
Also known as Shattered Dreams in the USA
(1919) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Harley Knoles
Cast: Robert Frazer [Captain Norman Worth], Pinna Nesbit [Barbara Bozenta], Leslie Stowe [Herman Wolff], Howard Truesdale [Colonel Worth], Jim Savage [Tom Mooney], Ethel Wright [Catherine Wolff], Valda Valkyrien [Elena Worth], May Hopkins [Blanche], Chief Standing Bear [Saka], J.G. Davis (J. Gunnis Davis) [Jim]
Mayflower Photoplay Corporation production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Harry Chandee, from the novel Comrades by Thomas Dixon. Assistant directors, George Kelson and Walter R. Sheridan. Cinematography by Philip Hatkin. / © 9 April 1919 by Mayflower Photoplay Corporation [LP13580]. Released 19 April 1919. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Red Republic. The film was rereleased in the USA as Shattered Dreams by American Motion Picture Corporation; actor names and character names were changed in the rerelease credits: Robert Fraser as Norman Bradshaw, Inez Nesbit as Barbara Alden, Henry Truesdell as Colonel Henry Bradshaw, Clara Lane as Catherine Wolff, Valda Valkyrien as Nancy Bradshaw, and James Davis as Jimmy. The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1922.
Drama.
Survival status: Print exists [16mm reduction positive (Shattered Dreams rerelease version)].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Children - Fundraising - Medical: Doctors - Newspapers - Socialism - Speeches - USA: Florida: Palm Beach: Royal Poinciana Hotel
Listing updated: 16 September 2009.
References: Film credits, film viewing : AFI-F1 n. F1.0413; Robertson-British p. 186 : Website-AFI.
Home video: DVD.
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