Name: The Man Who Stood Still
Genre: Adaptation
Released: 1916
Cast: Lew Fields, Doris Kenyon, George Trimble, Viola Trent, Harry Fraser

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Genre

Adaptation

Release Date

Oct 30, 1916

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Paragon Films, Inc.

Distribution Company

World Film Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the play The Man Who Stood Still by Jules Eckert Goodman (New York, 15 Oct 1908).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

The primary interest of widowed jeweler Herman Krauss is his daughter Marie, and so when she is old enough, he carefully arranges a marriage between her and Fred Spiegel, the son of his best friend Otto. Marie has other ideas, however, and elopes with Frank MacPherson, the son of Herman's chief business rival. Two years later, Herman still has not forgiven Marie, whom Frank deserted before the birth of their baby. Complicating matters, it is soon learned that the marriage was not legal, thereby making Marie's child illegitimate. Finally, Herman allows Marie to live with him and, eventually being won over by his grandchild, comes to forgive her. Marie then marries Fred, who had never stopped loving her, and so provides her child with a caring, dependable father.