A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2024 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Pillars of Society
(1911) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by (unknown)

Cast: Martin Faust [Johan], Julia M. Taylor [Bernick’s wife]

Thanhouser Company production; distributed by Motion Picture Distributing & Sales Company. / Scenario by Edwin Thanhouser, from a play by Henrik Ibsen. / Released 2 May 1911. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive, 16mm reduction positive]; and in the British Film Institute National Archive film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 20 October 2013.

References: Sloan-Loud p. 150 : Website-GEM; Website-IMDb; Website-Thanhouser.

Home video: DVD.