Conrad in Quest of His Youth
About Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Conrad Warrener, nearly middle-aged, decides to recover the happiness of his younger years by going back to the places and people attached to them. The return does not give him the second chance he expected. Thomas Meighan plays Conrad. Eddie Sutherland plays him at seventeen.
Cast & crew
More about Conrad in Quest of His Youth
William C. deMille directed. Olga Printzlau adapted Leonard Merrick's 1903 novel Conrad in Search of His Youth. Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky produced it for Paramount, which released it on 5 December 1920. The print is six reels, 5,926 feet. Mabel Van Buren plays Nina, Kathlyn Williams plays Mrs. Adaile, and Margaret Loomis plays Roslind.
Themes
Background
A Paramount special built on a 1903 novel about a man who tries to rerun his youth and finds the people have kept moving.
Preservation
A print survives at the Library of Congress.
Notes
- The novel's title is Conrad in Search of His Youth. The film uses Quest.
- Mayme Kelso plays Gina, Bertram Johns plays Ted, Sylvia Ashton plays Mary Page, and Ruth Renick plays Tattie.
- Charles Ogle plays Dobson.
- A print survives at the Library of Congress.
- Sutherland, billed as Eddie, plays the seventeen-year-old Conrad in the memory passages.
Scenes
- Conrad goes back to the settings of his youth and finds they no longer match the memory.
Influenced by
- Conrad in Search of His Youth (Leonard Merrick novel, 1903)
