| The Diamond from the Sky | |
| Director: | Jacques Jaccard William Desmond Taylor |
| Starring: | Lottie Pickford Irving Cummings William Russell |
| Studio: | American Film Manufacturing Company - Flying "A" Studios |
| Distributor: | American Film Manufacturing Company |
| Runtime: | 900 minutes (30 episodes) |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | Silent (English intertitles) |
| Budget: | $800,000[1] |
The Diamond from the Sky is a 1915 American silent adventure-film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and William Desmond Taylor and starring Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings, and William Russell.
No copies of this serial's "chapters" have been found, so the overall production is currently classified as a lost film.[2]
The prologue in the serial's first episode, "A Heritage of Hate", depicts the discovery of a spectacular diamond inside a meteorite, a gem that later becomes the property of the Stanley family, who call their heirloom "The Diamond From the Sky". The remainder of the first chapter portrays the intense rivalry between Colonel Arthur Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, Virginia aristocrats and descendants of Lord Arthur Stanley, 200 years later.
When a girl is born to the young wife of Colonel Arthur Stanley, the latter, to retain an earldom and "The Diamond From the Sky," buys a new born Gypsy baby boy and substitutes it for his own babe. Judge Lamar Stanley visits Colonel Arthur Stanley's home to see the child just as Hagar, the gypsy woman, bursts into the room to demand her boy, and the colonel falls unconscious across the library table.