The Crystal Cup

The Crystal Cup (1927)

A beautiful young girl has been raised by her bitter mother to hate all men, but her beauty means that men are constantly after her. She rejects them all, leading some to believe that she may be a lesbian. To stop those rumors, she begins a platonic relationship with a young writer, but things don't work out exactly as planned.

Data lansării
1927-10-16
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Durată
1 h 10 min
Genuri
Dramă, Romantic
Regizor
John Francis Dillon

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The Crystal Cup is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by John Francis Dillon and written by Gerald Duffy and Mort Blumenstock. It is based on the 1925 novel The Crystal Cup by Gertrude Atherton.

Background

According to The Washington Post, "for her unusual role in this highly dramatic picture, Miss Mackaill, as an unusually athletic young woman, is called upon to play golf, perform in a gymnasium and do some expert swimming. It was necessary for her to study the game of golf as well as practice the gymnasium stunts, but the swimming came easily, inasmuch as she has had a swimming pool in her Beverly Hills home for some time and lists the aquatic di…

Henry Hobart, the producer, said he kept the plot simple because he believes that "many worthwhile film stories are appreciably lessened in dramatic value because of an overly complicated plot, the essential drama is weakened because of the necessity of wasting the greater part of the space available in a picture of ordinary length on irrelevant explanations." He went on to say that "too many characters in a story make for the same difficulty in…

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