The Corsican Brothers
About The Corsican Brothers
Siamese twins Fabien and Louis Dei Franchi are separated at birth and stay linked by feeling. Emilie de Lesparre arrives in their Corsican village with her father, and both brothers fall in love with her. Louis goes to Paris to study law and sees her there, but she loves Fabien, who has stayed in Corsica with their mother. At a dinner given by another admirer, Chateau Renaud, Louis is drawn into a duel and killed. Fabien senses the death at home, goes to Paris, kills Renaud in a duel, and hears Emilie say she loves him.
Cast & crew
More about The Corsican Brothers
Colin Campbell directed Catherine Carr's script from Alexandre Dumas's novel. A play of the novel that opened in New York in 1852 was also a source, according to the AFI Catalog. Louis J. Gasnier produced. Dal Clawson photographed the six-reel silent.
Themes
Background
A 1920 American silent of Dumas's Corsican vendetta story, released as a six-reel feature.
Making
Farnum doubled the brothers, the usual stage solution, in a United Picture Theatres release.
Look
Dal Clawson photographed the Corsican village, the Paris dinner, and the two duels.
Notes
- Dustin Farnum plays both Fabien and Louis Dei Franchi.
- Winifred Kingston plays Emilie de Lesparre. Wedgwood Nowell plays Chateau Renaud.
- Fanny Midgley plays Madame Savilia Dei Franchi. Ogden Crane plays Gaeno Orlando.
- Wikidata also lists publication dates of 29 May, 15 November, and 13 December 1920.
- English intertitles. Black and white.
Scenes
- Louis is killed in the duel after Renaud's dinner.
- Fabien, still in Corsica, feels the death and leaves for Paris.
Influenced by
- Alexandre Dumas's novel The Corsican Brothers
- The 1852 New York play
