Love's Whirlpool

Love's Whirlpool (1924)

Toughened criminal Jim Reagan tries to persuade his brother, Larry, to go straight, but Larry attempts to rob a banker, Richard Milton, and is arrested. Milton refuses to be lenient, and when Larry is killed trying to escape from prison, Jim and his wife, Molly, resolve to have vengeance.

Date of release
1924-03-02
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Drama
Director
Bruce Mitchell

Casting

Interesting facts

Love's Whirlpool is a 1924 American silent crime drama film directed by Bruce M. Mitchell and starring James Kirkwood and Lila Lee.

Production

Publicity for Love's Whirlpool claimed that the film was based on a novel by Martha Lord entitled The Inner Sight, but there is no evidence that such a book was ever published. Director Bruce Mitchell co-wrote the adaptation for Love's Whirlpool with Elliott Clawson.

The film's producers advertised the film as a combination crook melodrama, romance, and treatise on the spirit world. To capitalize on society's wider interest in spiritualism after World War I, W.W. Hodkinson Distribution offer the following advice to theater managers:

Drape a booth in black and set it in your lobby. Just outside have a man with long whiskers, a turban and clothing worn by fortunetellers and "readers" of various kinds. Over the booth have a sign "Gaze into the crystal ball and see yourself as your really are." Inside the booth have an ordinary looking glass. Let the crowds go in and get a look for themselves.

Love's Whirlpool was also the first film starring James Kirkwood and Lila Lee since their marriage in 1923.

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