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The Painted Soul
Also known as The Straight Road in the USA
(1915) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Scott Sidney

Cast: Bessie Barriscale [Irene Brock], Charles Ray [Barnard], Truly Shattuck [Barnard’s mother]

New York Motion Picture Corporation production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Mutual Masterpicture]. / From a screen story by Russell E. Smith. / Released 23 December 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was rereleased in the USA on State Rights basis as The Straight Road by W.H. Productions Company in 1918.

Drama.

Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3341.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 23 July 2024.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3341; Tarbox-Lost p. 248.