The whispering chorus.
A bookkeeper frustrated by financial hardship and the cruelty of fate abandons his wife and job. He decides to live as a recluse in a waterfront shack. He finds a cadaver in the water and assumes the dead man's identity so he can find a new life. But fate has only begun to toy with him.
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| Format: | Video VHS |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Silent. |
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New York :
Kino on Video,
[1997]
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| Series: | Cecil B. DeMille. Visionary years, 1915-1927.
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| Summary: | A bookkeeper frustrated by financial hardship and the cruelty of fate abandons his wife and job. He decides to live as a recluse in a waterfront shack. He finds a cadaver in the water and assumes the dead man's identity so he can find a new life. But fate has only begun to toy with him. |
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| Item Description: | "This edition produced in cooperation with the estate of Cecil B. DeMille. Film materials courtesy of the George Eastman House. Special contents of this edition c1997 Film Preservation Associates"--Container. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1918. From the story by Perley Poore Sheehan. Videorecording. |
| Physical Description: | 1 videocassette (86 min.) : silent, color tinted ; 1/2 in. |
| Format: | VHS format. |
| Audience: | Not rated. |
| Production Credits: | Presenter, Jesse L. Lasky ; producer and director, Cecil B. DeMille ; scenario, Jeanie MacPherson ; photography, Alvin Wyckoff ; art director, Wilfred Buckland ; music, Rodney Sauer ; musical score compiled by Rodney Sauer, performed by the Mont Alto Theater Orchestra ; produced for video by David Shepard. |