Manslaughter
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Cecil B. De Mille
Thomas Meighan
Leatrice Joy
Lois Wilson
John Miltern
George Fawcett
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Lydia Thorne, a wealthy girl who loves speed and thrills, is unsympathetic when Evans, her maid, is jailed for stealing her jewels. District Attorney Daniel O'Bannon visits Lydia to make her see the error of her own ways, but instead views a scene of Lydia and her friends that reminds him of a Roman orgy. O'Bannon feels it is his duty, therefore, to send Lydia to jail for her own good when her automobile driving causes the death of a motorcycle policeman. Lydia is resentful, and her rebuff of O'Bannon, who has come to love her, causes him such remorse that he turns to drink and dissipation. Meanwhile, Lydia reforms, realizes she loves O'Bannon, and resolves to do charitable work. She and Evans open a soup kitchen after their release, and a chance meeting with O'Bannon starts him on the road to recovery. With Lydia's encouragement he becomes himself again, runs for governor, but withdraws his candidacy to marry Lydia when he sees that her record would be a liability to him in politics.
Director
Cecil B. De Mille
Cast
Thomas Meighan
Leatrice Joy
Lois Wilson
John Miltern
George Fawcett
Julia Faye
Edythe Chapman
Jack Mower
Dorothy Cumming
Casson Ferguson
Mickey Moore
James Neill
Sylvia Ashton
Raymond Hatton
"teddy"
Mabel Van Buren
Ethel Wales
Dale Fuller
Edward Martindel
Charles Ogle
Guy Oliver
Shannon Day
Lucien Littlefield
Clarence Burton
William Boyd
J. Farrell Macdonald
Theodore Von Eltz
Nora Cecil
Madame Sul-te-wan
Charles West
Emmett King
Sidney Bracy
Fred Kelsey
Spottiswoode Aitken
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Paramount filmed another adaptation of Alice Duer Miller's in 1930, under the same title, directed by George Abbott and starring Claudette Colbert and Frederic March. In 1931, Paramount released foreign-language versions of the 1930 version. For information on those films, see the entries for Manslaughter (1930) and La incorregible (1931) in AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30 and 1931-40.
