The Mother Instinct Explained

The Mother Instinct
Studio:	Triangle Film Corporation
Distributor:	Triangle Distributing
Runtime:	50 minutes
Country:	United States

The Mother Instinct is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and Roy William Neill and starring Enid Bennett, Rowland V. Lee and Margery Wilson.^[1]

Cast

• Enid Bennett as Eleanor Coutierre
• Rowland V. Lee as Jacques
• Margery Wilson as Marie Coutierre
• Tod Burns as Pierre Bondel
• John Gilbert as Jean Coutierre
• Gertrude Claire as Mother Coutierre
• William Fairbanks as Raoul Bergere

Preservation

With no prints of The Mother Instinct located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[2]

Bibliography

• Golden, Eve. John Gilbert: The Last of the Silent Film Stars. University Press of Kentucky, 2013.

Notes and References

1. Golden p.33
2. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7686/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Mother Instinct