Dangerous Days
About Dangerous Days
German spy Rudolph Klein presses his brother Herman, a trusted man at Spencer Steel, to blow the munitions plant, while Graham Spencer's mother Natalie talks him out of enlisting. Rudolph convinces Herman that Graham is after Herman's daughter Anna, and Herman sets the blast. Anna dies running to warn the Spencers. Graham goes to war, Natalie leaves Clayton Spencer, and he turns to the widow Audrey Valentine.
Cast & crew
More about Dangerous Days
Reginald Barker directed for Eminent Authors Pictures, and Goldwyn released it on 14 March 1920, presented by Rex Beach and Samuel Goldwyn. J. G. Hawks, Charles Kenyon, and Thompson Buchanan wrote the script from Mary Roberts Rinehart's 1919 novel, and she wrote the titles. Percy Hilburn photographed the seven reels, which Wikidata times at 70 minutes.
Themes
Background
The story is set in an American steel town making munitions during the First World War, with a German agent inside the works.
Look
Percy Hilburn photographed the film.
Preservation
Silent Era lists a surviving print in the public domain in the United States.
Notes
- Lawson Butt plays Clayton Spencer. Clarissa Selwynne is Natalie. Rowland V. Lee is Graham. Ann Forrest is Anna Klein. Stanton Heck is Herman Klein. Frank Leigh is Rudolph.
- Barbara Castleton plays Audrey Valentine. Pauline Starke is Delight Haverford.
- The New York Times reviewed it on 15 March 1920. Moving Picture World reviewed it on 27 March 1920.
- Silent Era says a print exists and that the film is in the public domain in the United States.
Scenes
- Rudolph talks Herman into the bomb by naming Graham and Anna.
- Anna reaches the plant as the charge goes off.
- Natalie walks out, and Audrey remains with Spencer.
Influenced by
- Mary Roberts Rinehart's novel Dangerous Days (1919)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Dangerous days (1920).webm)
