The Years of the Locust
Cast & Crew
George H. Melford
Fannie Ward
Walter Long
Jack Dean
H. M. Best
Charles Ogle
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Despite her love for penniless Dirck Mead, Lorraine marries wealthy Aaron Roth to save her family from financial ruin. Roth, however, is a swindler who, while trying to escape the wrath of the law, jumps from a ship and is declared dead. Mead, now a diamond magnate, finds Lorraine in New York, marries her and takes her to live in South Africa, where, as it happens, Roth, who survived his leap from the ship, is currently conducting his shady business. Roth discovers Lorraine's situation and threatens her with exposure, and Lorraine is about to leave Mead when she learns of Roth's plan to steal a valuable diamond that Mead is escorting to the city. Summoning help, Lorraine reaches Mead in time to thwart the robbery. Roth is killed in the fight, and Lorraine is spared the task of resolving her marital status.
Director
George H. Melford
Cast
Fannie Ward
Walter Long
Jack Dean
H. M. Best
Charles Ogle
Crew
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
A copy of this film survives at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
Notes
Terhune's story was published as a novel in 1917. According to publicity for the film, Fannie Ward wore the same wedding gown in this film that she wore when she married her first husband, Joe Lewis, a South American diamond mine owner. Sources conflict on the name of the character played by Jack Dean. Reviews refer to him as "Direk Mead," while items in the Paramount studio records list him as "Dirck Mead." Some contemporary reviews credit Thew with the scenario as well as the adaptation, but items in the Paramount studio records indicate that de Mille and Osmun wrote the scenario.
