The Garden of Lies
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Cast & Crew
John H. Pratt
Jane Cowl
William Russell
Philip Hahn
Violet Horner
Ethelbert Hale
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On a honeymoon excursion, American Eleanor Mannering, who has chosen Prince Carl of Novodna for her husband, develops amnesia resulting from an auto wreck. In delirium, she calls Carl, who had to leave because his father was dying. Her doctor, who believes that she will die unless her husband comes, finds Dennis Mallory, an American adventurer, to pose as the prince. They fall in love, and Eleanor recovers, but when Carl, now the king, returns unexpectedly and sees them embracing, he challenges Mallory to a duel. After Mallory disarms him, Carl tells Eleanor that Mallory is an impostor, and even though the physician explains that the ruse was necessary, Eleanor sends Mallory and Carl away. When Novodna's prime minister, Baron Von Steinberck, abducts Eleanor, Mallory, followed by Carl, finds them in a deserted castle. Although Steinberck wounds Mallory and kills Carl, Eleanor is freed. When Mallory, near death, deliriously calls for Eleanor, she kneels beside him and embraces him.
Director
John H. Pratt
Cast
Jane Cowl
William Russell
Philip Hahn
Violet Horner
Ethelbert Hale
David Wall
Claude Cooper
Adele Carson
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Two plays were based on the novel by Justus Miles Forman. Sydney Grundy adapted it for a production that opened in New York on September 4, 1904; and George H. Broadhurst wrote a play founded on the book, which opened in Los Angeles on May 28, 1910. It is uncertain if either play served as the basis for the film. This film, originally shot in 1914 by the All Star Feature Corp., to be released by the Alco Film Corp., was later released by Universal Film Mfg. Co. after Alco went bankrupt. This was Jane Cowl's first film. Some scenes were shot in Southern Louisiana, on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, and in Jacksonville and St. Augustine, FL.
