Love Never Dies
About Love Never Dies
John Trott (Lloyd Hughes) leaves a rough home, becomes a contracting engineer, and marries Tilly Whaley (Madge Bellamy). His drunken mother turns up. While he is away, Tilly's father Ezekiel (Frank Brownlee) takes her home and gets a divorce. John, traveling with his foster sister, is in a train wreck and reports himself and the child dead. Tilly marries a former sweetheart. Years later John comes back. The jealous husband tries to kill him, loses the fight, and then kills himself despite John's attempt to stop him. John and Tilly are together again.
Cast & crew
More about Love Never Dies
King Vidor directed and adapted William Nathaniel Harben's novel The Cottage of Delight. Cathrine Curtis produced. Associated Producers released it on 14 November 1921. A stampede was shot in Fresno.
Themes
Background
A 1921 Vidor melodrama from Harben's novel, released by Associated Producers.
Preservation
Prints survive in several film archives. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Claire McDowell plays Liz Trott. Lillian Leighton plays Mrs. Cavanaugh. Winifred Greenwood plays Jane Holder. Joseph Bennett plays Joel Eperson.
- Prints survive in several film archives.
Scenes
- John reports himself dead after the train wreck.
- The jealous husband, beaten, takes his own life.
Influenced by
- William Nathaniel Harben's novel The Cottage of Delight
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Love Never Dies (1921).webm)
