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Driven from Home
(1927) United States of America
B&W : Seven reels / 6800 feet
Directed by James Young

Cast: Ray Hallor [the poor secretary], Virginia Lee Corbin [the poor little girl], Pauline Garon, Sojin (Sojin Kamiyama), Anna May Wong, Melbourne McDowell (Melbourne MacDowell) [the girl’s father], Margaret Seddon, Sheldon Lewis, Virginia Pearson, Eric Mayne, Alfred Fisher

Chadwick Pictures Corporation production. / Scenario by Enid Hibbard and Ethel Hall, from a play by Hal Reid. Cinematography by Ernest Miller. Presented by Jesse J. Goldburg. / Released 15 January 1927. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Silent film.

Drama.

Synopsis: [Film Daily, 6 February 1927, page 12] Poor little girl turned out by an irate papa because she eloped with his good looking but poor secretary while papa had a titled foreigner all signed to the dotted line. But that isn’t all. The complications are many and lurid. A subsea tunnel cave-in, a Chinese hop joint, a scheming housekeeper, and troubles without end pile on.

Survival status: Print exists in the Cinémathèque Royale film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Chinese - Drugs: Opium - Elopements - Families: Father-daughter relationships - Housekeepers - Secretaries

Listing updated: 2 August 2009.

References: Website-AFI : with additional information provided by Pete Jones.

 
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