The Girl in the Dark explained

The Girl in the Dark
Director:	Stuart Paton
Screenplay:	Albert Kenyon
Starring:	Carmel Myers Ashton Dearholt Frank Tokunaga
Cinematography:	Duke Hayward
Distributor:	Universal Pictures
Runtime:	5 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

The Girl in the Dark is a 1918 American silent mystery film directed by Stuart Paton. The script was written by Albert Kenyon, based on the 1914 novel The Green Seal by Charles Edmonds Walk.^{[1] [2]}

Plot

A young woman named Lois who was branded with Chinese letters on her shoulder as a baby finds herself attracting nefarious attention as she grows older.^[3]

Cast

• Carmel Myers as Lois Fox
• Ashton Dearholt as Brice Ferris
• Frank Tokunaga as Ming
• Frank Deshon as Lao Wing
• Harry Carter as Strang
• Alfred Allen as Chief of Police Struber
• Betty Schade as Sally

Preservation

With no copies of The Girl in the Dark held in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.

Notes and References

1. Book: Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. America Film Institute Staff. Gevinson. Alan. Afi. American Film. Institute. American Film. 1997. University of California Press. 9780520209640. en.
2. Book: Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. 2011-09-08. Walter de Gruyter. 9783110951943. en.
3. Web site: Oriental Film at the Bank. 8 Mar 1918. The Akron Beacon Journal. en. 2019-11-12.
4. http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5630/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Girl in the Dark