Below the Surface (1920 film)

Below the Surface

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Directed by Irvin Willat
Produced by Thomas H. Ince
Written by Luther Reed (screen story)
E. Magnus Ingleton (scenario)
Starring Hobart Bosworth
Grace Darmond
Cinematography J.O. Taylor
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release dates
 June 1920
April 22, 1923 (Finland)
Running time
 60 minutes; 6 reels (6,220 feet)
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

Below the Surface is a surviving 1920 silent film directed by Irvin Willat and starring Hobart Bosworth. Thomas H. Ince produced the picture with distribution through Paramount Pictures.[1][2]

The film survives in the Library of Congress along with outtakes from the production.[3]

Plot

Based upon a description in a film magazine,[4] Martin Flint (Bosworth) and his son Luther (Hughes) are partners in a deep sea diving business, and a promoter tries to interest them in a fraudulent scheme to extract treasure from a sunken wreck. The father declines, but the son accepts, attracted by a young woman with the promoter, whom Luther then marries. She later leaves him, and Luther becomes delirious, so the father goes to an underworld dive in an attempt to get her back. Later, a steamer sinks after a collision with a derelict, carrying the promoter and Luther's wife to their deaths. Luther refuses to accept his father's story that the woman was worthless, and dives on the sunken steamer only to discover his wife embraced in the arms of her lover.

Cast

References

  1. ↑ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20 by The American Film Institute, c.1988
  2. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Below the Surface at silentera.com
  3. ↑ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress by The American Film Institute, c.1978
  4. ↑ "Below the Surface: Bosworth's Acting and Graphic Incidents Make Entertaining Picture". Motion Picture News (New York City: Motion Picture News, Inc.) 21 (26): 5009. June 19, 1920. Retrieved 2014-06-25.

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