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The Safety Curtain
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Six reels
Directed by Sidney A. Franklin

Cast: Norma Talmadge [Puck], Eugene O’Brien [Captain Merryon], Anders Randolph [Vulcan], Gladden James [Sylvester], Lillian Hall [a ballet girl]

Norma Talmadge Film Corporation production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Scenario by Paul West and Sidney A. Franklin, from the short story “The Safety Curtain” by Ethel May Dell. Art direction by William Reinecke. Cinematography by Albert Moses and Ed Weynard. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 1 July 1918 by Norma Talmadge Film Corporation [LP12615]. Released 10 July 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [16mm reduction positive]; and in the Eye Film Instituut Nederland film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Crime: Blackmail - Disease: Cholera - India: Bombay - Rescues - United Kingdom: England: London - Vaudeville

Listing updated: 5 October 2014.

References: Website-AFI; Website-Talmadge.

Home video: DVD.