The Spanish Jade
Cast & Crew
Wilfred Lucas
Betty Bellairs
Wilfred Lucas
Nigel De Brullier
Arthur Tavares
Frank Lanning
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Synopsis
In the mid-nineteenth century, in a provincial Spanish town, Manuela is sold as a dancing girl to a strolling musician. In their wanderings, she meets Don Bartolome, who left his poor father Don Luis to become a highwayman. Bartolome falls in love with Manuela and takes her with him after killing the musician. When they meet Osmund Manvers, an English squire, Bartolome wants to use Manuela to rob him, but Manvers rescues Manuela from a gang of vagabonds and carries her into the country. Later, Manuela stabs and kills Bartolome after he threatens her. Manuela flees and Manvers searches for her. When Don Luis learns about Bartolome's death, he challenges Manvers to a duel. After Manvers refuses, Tormillo, Don Luis' servant, stabs Manvers in the arm. When Manuela offers her life to Don Luis to save Manvers, Don Luis relents, but Tormillo remains frantic. Manvers' valet and friend, Gil Perez, prepares poison for Tormillo, but Tormillo demands that Gil Perez drink first. To save Manvers and Manuela, first Gil Perez drinks the poison, then Tormillo drinks it, after which they both die. Manvers and Manuela are now reunited.
Director
Wilfred Lucas
Cast
Betty Bellairs
Wilfred Lucas
Nigel De Brullier
Arthur Tavares
Frank Lanning
Lloyd Ingraham
Crew
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Louis Joseph Vance also adapted the novel for the stage. This was the first film of Vance's own company, Fiction Pictures, Inc. The novel was also made into a film in 1922 by Famous Players-Lasky Corp. starring Evelyn Brent. (See AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1921-30; F2.5291.)
