Alien Souls Explained

Alien Souls
Director:	Frank Reicher
Producer:	Jesse Lasky
Story:	Margaret Turnbull Hector Turnbull^[1]
Starring:	Sessue Hayakawa Tsuru Aoki
Cinematography:	Walter Stradling
Distributor:	Paramount Pictures
Runtime:	5 reels
Country:	USA
Language:	Silent film (English intertitles)

Alien Souls is a 1916 silent film feature directed by Frank Reicher and starring Sessue Hayakawa, his real-life wife Tsuru Aoki and Earle Foxe. It was developed as a vehicle for Hayakawa after the success of his film The Cheat.^{[2] [3]}

Cast

• Sessue Hayakawa - Sakata
• Tsuru Aoki - Yuri Chan
• Earle Foxe - Aleck Lindsay
• Grace Benham - Mrs. Conway
• J. Parks Jones - Jack Holloway
• Violet Malone - Gertrude Van Ness
• Dorothy Abril - Geraldine Smythe

Preservation

With no prints of Alien Souls located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[4]

Notes and References

1. News: Film Flickerings. Iowa City Press-Citizen . Iowa City, Iowa. August 24, 1916. 3. Newspapers.com.
2. Web site: Alien Souls . afi.com . March 21, 2024.
3. Web site: Progressive Silent Film List: Alien Souls . March 21, 2024 . silentera.com.
4. Web site: American Silent Feature Film Database: Alien Souls . March 21, 2024 . Library of Congress.