Men and Women | |
Director: | James Kirkwood D. W. Griffith (supervising director) |
Producer: | Biograph Company Marc Klaw Abraham Erlanger |
Starring: | Lionel Barrymore Blanche Sweet |
Distributor: | General Film Company |
Runtime: | 30 minutes; 3 reels |
Country: | United States |
Language: | Silent(English intertitles) |
Men and Women is an extant short 1914 silent film produced by the Biograph Company and released by General Film Company. It is based on the 1890 play of the same name by David Belasco and Henry Churchill de Mille. It stars Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Sweet and Marshall Neilan. Sweet and Neilan would later marry in real life.[1]
Robert Stevens robs the bank where he is employed, and through the efforts of Calvin Stedman, the prosecuting attorney, he is sentenced to six years' imprisonment. While in jail his wife dies and his little daughter, Agnes, is placed in a convent. At the expiration of his sentence, Stevens locates his daughter and settles in Arizona, assuming the name of Stephen Rodman.
The story was refilmed by Paramount in 1925 as Men and Women.