The Man From Home

1922 Drama 70 minutes Directed by George Fitzmaurice

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About The Man From Home

Genevieve Granger-Simpson, an heiress from Kokomo, Indiana, leaves for Italy with her brother Horace. Her guardian, Daniel Forbes Pike, learns she loves him. In Italy, Prince Kinsillo and his family pursue her money. She writes Daniel for a $50,000 dowry. The prince has also been involved with the flower girl Faustina; she stabs him, and he kills her. Daniel reaches Italy, helps a king traveling incognito, and exposes the prince. Genevieve agrees to go home with him.

Cast & crew

More about The Man From Home

George Fitzmaurice directed. Ouida Bergère wrote the screenplay from the play by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. Roy F. Overbaugh photographed. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as title designer. Several scenes were filmed in Italy. Famous Players-Lasky distributed the British production. Runtime 70 minutes. Released 30 April 1922.

Themes

  • an Indiana heiress and a European prince
  • a guardian who follows her to Italy
  • a dowry scheme
  • Kokomo
  • Prince Kinsillo
  • dowry
  • Italy
  • guardian
  • Booth Tarkington

Making

Hitchcock's credit on this picture is for the intertitles, not direction. Location work was done in Italy.

Look

Roy F. Overbaugh photographed it, including the Italian location scenes.

Preservation

Survives at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. A file is also on Wikimedia Commons.

Notes

  • Cecil B. DeMille had filmed the same play in 1914 as The Man From Home.
  • James Kirkwood plays Daniel Forbes Pike and Anna Q. Nilsson plays Genevieve.
  • Norman Kerry is Prince Kinsillo, Geoffrey Kerr is Horace, Dorothy Cumming is Princess Sabina, and Annette Benson is Faustina Ribière.
  • Wikidata also lists the United States as a country. Wikipedia gives the country as the United Kingdom and the distributor as Famous Players–Lasky British Producers.
  • The story is set in Italy.
  • Shown again in September 2015 at the British Silent Film Festival in Leicester, described as possibly the first public screening since the 1920s.

Scenes

  • Genevieve writes Daniel for a $50,000 dowry.
  • Faustina stabs Prince Kinsillo and he kills her.
  • Daniel exposes the prince after helping a king whose motor has broken down.

Influenced by

  • The play The Man from Home by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (The Man from Home (1922).webm)

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