Silas Marner
About Silas Marner
Frederick Warde plays Silas Marner in this Thanhouser film of George Eliot’s novel. The weaver is accused of murder and robbery and becomes a miser in Raveloe. An orphan, Eppie, comes into his house, and he grows attached to her.
Cast & crew
More about Silas Marner
Ernest C. Warde directed. Edwin Thanhouser produced. Mutual distributed it. William Zollinger photographed it. It opened on 19 February 1916 in seven reels. The catalog notes that a three-reel re-release is what survives.
Themes
Making
Thanhouser built the feature around Frederick Warde, a stage actor, and cut the release from seven reels to a three-reel reissue that is the surviving form.
Music
Silent.
Preservation
The original was seven reels. The catalog records a three-reel re-release as the surviving version.
Notes
- Valda Valkyrien plays Molly. Morgan Jones plays the supposed friend. Thomas A. Curran is Godfrey. Ethel Jewett is Nancy. Louise Bates plays Silas’s sweetheart.
- Frank McNish is Squire Cass. Hector Dion is Dunstan. Arthur Rankin is Lammeter.
- The director is the star’s son.
- The story is set in England. The novel was published in 1861.
Scenes
- Eppie comes into the miser’s house and he keeps her.
Influenced by
- George Eliot’s novel Silas Marner (1861)
