The Silent Master


1917

Film Details

Also Known As
The Court of St. Simon
Release Date
Jun 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Robert Warwick Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises; Selznick Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Court of St. Simon by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (Boston, 1912).

Synopsis

Valentin Marquis de Sombreiul, alias Monsieur Simon, is known as the great master because he is the leader of a band of Parisian Apaches who mete out their own private justice to individuals who have violated their code in a secret tribunal known as the court of St. Simon. In an effort to cure Eugene, a young American longing for excitement, Valentin induces the young man to witness these horrors with the result that the youth is drawn into the Apache gang and sentenced to prison for one of their crimes. Later, after the master has disbanded his secret society and married Virginia Arlen, a charming girl of an aristocratic family, he discovers to his horror that the boy whose life he has ruined is his wife's brother. When Virginia learns the truth, she refuses to forgive Valentin, but after a period of separation, the two are reconciled by their child.

Film Details

Also Known As
The Court of St. Simon
Release Date
Jun 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Robert Warwick Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Lewis J. Selznick Enterprises; Selznick Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Court of St. Simon by Edward Phillips Oppenheim (Boston, 1912).

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The original title of this film was The Court of St. Simon. This was director Lonce Perret's first American film.