Lorna Doone
About Lorna Doone
In seventeenth-century England an outlaw clan, the Doones, kidnaps a girl who grows up as Lorna (Madge Bellamy). John Ridd (John Bowers), the farm boy who met her just before she was taken, later gets her away. Frank Keenan plays Sir Ensor Doone. A coach is robbed on the shore, and the robber village is staged as a set piece.
Cast & crew
More about Lorna Doone
Maurice Tourneur directed and produced it with Thomas H. Ince, from R. D. Blackmore's 1869 novel. Henry Sharp was the cinematographer. It opened in Cleveland on 1 October 1922 and in New York on 3 December 1922. Seven reels. Earlier films of the novel were made in 1912 for Clarendon and in 1915 for Biograph.
Themes
Background
Tourneur's American production of a novel already filmed in Britain in 1912 and in the United States in 1915.
Reviews
Variety said Madge Bellamy had the right wistful beauty for Lorna, that Frank Keenan took the acting honors as Sir Ensor Doone, and that the coach robbery on the shore was a strong pictorial passage.
Look
Henry Sharp photographed it. Variety credited the period look of the stagecoach inn and the shore robbery.
Music
Mari Iijima composed a score for the 2001 Kino remaster.
Preservation
A complete version was digitally restored in 2001. Kino International issued it on DVD that year.
Notes
- Variety singled out Bellamy's Lorna, gave the acting honors to Frank Keenan as Sir Ensor, and praised the coach robbery on the seashore.
- A digital restoration in 2001, paid for by Jesse Sharp, was issued on DVD by Kino International.
- Mari Iijima wrote a new score for that 2001 remaster. It is not a 1922 score.
Scenes
- The coach is robbed on the seashore.
Influenced by
- R. D. Blackmore's novel Lorna Doone (1869)
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-lorna-doone)
- Wikimedia Commons (Lorna Doone (1922) .webm)
- Kino International DVD (2001)
