Love the Conqueror
About Love the Conqueror
Alice Payne, seventeen, daughter of the millionaire John Payne, is dying. Dr. Sheldon has just lost his wife and does not want the case, then saves Alice at the last moment. While he is with her, his house catches fire. He comes home to the flower-covered coffin burning in the living room and breaks down. Payne and Alice visit him in the mental hospital until he is on his feet again. Something in him is still not right.
Cast & crew
More about Love the Conqueror
Robert Dinesen directed. Mogens Falck wrote it. Ole Olsen produced it. Sophus Wangøe photographed it. It was released on 4 December 1917 and runs 44 minutes. Valdemar Psilander and Gerd Egede-Nissen lead the cast.
Themes
Making
Olsen, who founded Nordisk, is the named producer. Dinesen shoots the breakdown as a man walking back into his own parlor and finding the coffin in the fire.
Look
Sophus Wangøe photographed the silent drama, including the burning parlor.
Preservation
A 44-minute print survives.
Notes
- The Internet Archive copy is filed under the Danish title En fare for samfundet.
- Philip Bech, Moritz Bielawski, Thorleif Lund, Axel Mattsson, Franz Skondrup, and Ingeborg Spangsfeldt are on the cast list.
- Gerd Egede-Nissen is also credited under her later name, Gerd Grieg.
- A second date, 28 January 1918, is attached to the same film in the publication record.
Scenes
- Sheldon returns and sees the flower-covered coffin burning in the living room.
- Payne and Alice keep visiting him in the hospital.
Also available
- Internet Archive (silent-en-fare-for-samfundet)
