Reckless Youth
About Reckless Youth
Alice Schuyler is thrown out of a convent school and sent to a strict aunt near New York. She runs off and takes shelter with John Carmen, a wealthy bachelor, who marries her to avoid the scandal. They drift apart after she takes up with Harrison Thomby. A cabaret quarrel, a mixed-up taxi, and a wreck leave Alice injured; she dreams she is trapped on Harrison's yacht and wakes in John's arms.
Cast & crew
More about Reckless Youth
Ralph Ince directed Elaine Hammerstein in this Lewis J. Selznick production. Cosmo Hamilton and Edward J. Montagne wrote it. Select Pictures made the film and Selznick Pictures released it.
Themes
Making
The George Eastman Museum holds a tinted 35mm print taken from material returned by the New Zealand Film Archive. Preservation was paid for by a Save America's Treasures grant.
Reviews
Exhibitors Herald reviewed the film on April 15, 1922.
Look
John W. Brown and Jules Cronjager are the credited cameramen. The Eastman print is tinted.
Preservation
A tinted 35mm print is at the George Eastman Museum, from New Zealand Film Archive material. The first reel is missing. Five of the six reels survive.
Notes
- Constance Bennett appears as the chorus girl John accidentally takes home.
- John W. Brown and Jules Cronjager photographed it.
- Exhibitors Herald ran a review on April 15, 1922.
- The surviving print is missing the first reel.
Scenes
- Alice takes cover in John Carmen's house, and he proposes marriage to end the gossip.
- John and Alice meet Harrison at a cabaret and the marriage breaks.
- Unconscious after a taxi wreck, Alice dreams she is trapped on Harrison's yacht.
