The Wild Party (1923 film) explained

Sacred Silence
Director:Herbert Blaché
Producer:Carl Laemmle
Story:Marion Orth
Starring:Gladys Walton
Cinematography:Clyde De Vinna
Distributor:Universal Pictures
Runtime:5 reels
Country:United States
Language:Silent (English intertitles)

The Wild Party is a lost[1] [2] 1923 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Blaché and starring Gladys Walton and Robert Ellis.[3]

Plot summary

The secretary to the city editor of a newspaper, Leslie Adams, persuades him to let her write up a society affair. Her efforts result in a libel suit against the paper, and Leslie is told to prove her story or join the ranks of the unemployed. She fails to prove that she was right, though coincidentally, she wins the love of Stuart Furth, the man who threatened the libel suit.[4]

Preservation

With no prints of The Wild Party located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.[5]

Notes and References

  1. http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10644/default.html The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Wild Party
  2. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/W/WildParty1923.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Wild Party at silentera.com
  3. https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/13338 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: The Wild Party
  4. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014616/
  5. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10644/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Wild Party