When the Clouds Roll By
About When the Clouds Roll By
Dr. Ulrich Metz sets out to drive New Yorker Daniel Boone Brown to suicide with broken mirrors, black cats, and arranged bad luck. Daniel falls in love with Greenwich Village painter Lucette Bancroft. A Westerner in partnership with her father plots with Daniel's uncle Curtis to cheat that partner, and he talks Lucette into going west. A flood hits their train. Metz is shown to be insane, and Daniel brings the story to a happy end.
Cast & crew
More about When the Clouds Roll By
Victor Fleming directed, with Theodore Reed uncredited as co-director. Douglas Fairbanks wrote the story, produced, and plays Daniel. United Artists released it on December 28, 1919.
Themes
Look
William C. McGann and Harry Thorpe photographed it, including the ceiling walk and the flood.
Preservation
After decades out of public view, Alpha Video issued it on DVD in 2010 with a score by Don Kinnier.
Notes
- Kathleen Clifford plays Lucette. Herbert Grimwood plays Metz. Ralph Lewis plays Uncle Curtis. Frank Campeau plays Mark Drake.
- Bull Montana appears as a figure in a nightmare.
- Fairbanks walks on the ceiling in a dream sequence.
Scenes
- Fairbanks walks across the ceiling in the dream.
- A flood overtakes the train Lucette is on.
Also available
- Alpha Video DVD (2010)
- Wikimedia Commons (When the Clouds Roll By (1919).webm)
