Pearl of Love explained

Pearl of Love
Director:Leon Danmun
Starring:Betty Balfour
Gladys Leslie
Burr McIntosh
Studio:Paul W. Whitcomb Productions
Distributor:Lee-Bradford Corporation
Runtime:6 reels
Country:United States
Language:Silent (English intertitles)

Pearl of Love is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Leon Danmun and starring Betty Balfour, Gladys Leslie, and Burr McIntosh.[1] It is based upon a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.[2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review, little Mara finds a boy and his mother lashed to a raft. Mara's grandfather adopts the boy, who later grows up and comes to love Mara and becomes a shipbuilder. When he turns to smuggling, he later is converted by his love of Mara to go straight.

Preservation

With no prints of Pearl of Love located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Wlaschin p. 216
  2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/P/PearlOfLove1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: Pearl of Love
  3. http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8217/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Pearl of Love