Name: Whitewashed Walls
Released: 1919
Cast: William Desmond, Fritzi Brunette, Carmen Phillips, Jack Richardson, Arthur Mallete

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Apr 14, 1919

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Jesse D. Hampton Productions

Distribution Company

Robertson-Cole Co. through Exhibitors Mutual Distributing Corp.

Country

United States

Screenplay Information

Based on the story "Whitewashed Walls" by Ethel and James Dorrance in Munsey's Magazine (date undetermined).

Technical Specs

Sound

Silent

Color

Black and White

Theatrical Aspect Ratio

1.33 : 1

Film Length

5 reels

Synopsis

In the tiny Latin American country of Altamura, American architect, sculptor, and adventurer Larry Donovan is executing a magnificent palace for the vain, diminutive Governor Romero, who is angered by Larry's lack of respect. After leading his co-workers in a riotous Fourth of July celebration, Larry responds to the insults of Generalissimo Pedro Mendez by knocking him out. Mendez' sweetheart Rosa, plotting for Mendez to be governor, hides him in the mountains and fakes his funeral so that Larry will be executed and Romero thrown out. When Larry is taken to the whitewashed execution wall, however, he appeals to Romero's conceit and gets a one-week reprieve to build a statue of Romero for the palace. Before his time is up, Larry receives a gun in jail from an Irish friend using the name of Patricio Cassidano, who also proves that Larry did not kill the now deceased Mendez. After he uses Romero as a shield to escape, Larry obtains Romero's consent to marry his pretty niece Concha.