The Struggle Everlasting
Cast & Crew
James Kirkwood
Florence Reed
Milton Sills
Irving Cummings
Wellington Playter
E. J. Ratcliffe
Film Details
Synopsis
Mind, in the form of a college student, becomes infatuated with Body, a local barmaid, and neglects his studies, despite the warnings of his brother, Soul. Finally, however, he heeds Soul's advice and graduates to become a noted writer. Meanwhile, Soul becomes a minister and Body an adventuress. Body acquires four more lovers: a Champion Pugilist, a Musician, an Actor and a Banker, ruining and then discarding each one in turn. Eventually she enters Soul's church, where she realizes that her sinful mode of living can only lead to unhappiness. In trying to rescue Frail Sister, a white slave in the power of Slimy Thing, Body is shot and killed.
Director
James Kirkwood
Cast
Florence Reed
Milton Sills
Irving Cummings
Wellington Playter
E. J. Ratcliffe
Edwin N. Hoyt
Fred C. Jones
Albert Hall
Richard Hatteras
Margaret Pitt
Mildred Cheshire
George Cooper
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Notes
First shown in New York in December 1917, the film was probably not widely distributed until April 1918, when the Arrow Film Corp. released it on a state rights basis. It was shot at the Biograph studio in the Bronx. At the time of the December 1917 New York opening, the characters were called by their allegorical names, and a May 1918 review also uses the allegorical names. An April 1918 ad, however, refers to Florence Reed's character as Lois, and the copyright records, also submitted in April 1918, give proper names for the characters. Damage to the copyright records makes it difficult to read the proper names of the Banker and the Class Poet, but they appear to be Richard Powers and Edward Keats, respectively. One review of the December 1917 opening describes the film as an eight-reeler.
