The Street of Illusion
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Erle C. Kenton
Director
Virginia Valli
Sylvia Thurston
Ian Keith
Edwin Booth Benton
Harry Myers
Lew Fielding
Kenneth Thomson
Curtis Drake
Frank Atkinson
Film Editor
Film Details
Release Date
Sep
3,
1928
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Columbia Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Street of Illusion" by Channing Pollock (publication undetermined).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 5m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,988ft
(7 reels)
Synopsis
Edwin Booth Benton, an impecunious, egotisitical, and embittered actor who is given a small part in a Broadway production, secures for Sylvia Thurston, a beautiful young actress of his acquaintance, the feminine lead in the play. Sylvia falls in love with Curtis Drake, the play's leading man, and Benton's jealousy is greatly aroused; when Drake and Sylvia announce their engagement, Benton is overcome with rage and substitutes real bullets for the blanks in the prop pistol used to shoot Drake in the third act. The following day, Drake is injured in a fall just after the second act, and Benton (Drake's understudy) must go on in his place; mortally wounded, Drake confesses all and dies with the audience's applause still sounding in his ears.
Director
Erle C. Kenton
Director
Cast
Virginia Valli
Sylvia Thurston
Ian Keith
Edwin Booth Benton
Harry Myers
Lew Fielding
Kenneth Thomson
Curtis Drake
Crew
Film Details
Release Date
Sep
3,
1928
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Columbia Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the short story "The Street of Illusion" by Channing Pollock (publication undetermined).
Technical Specs
Duration
1h 5m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Theatrical Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Film Length
5,988ft
(7 reels)
