Manslaughter (1922)
September 24, 1922Release Date
Manslaughter (1922)
September 24, 1922Release Date

Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Leatrice Joy
Lydia Thorne

Thomas Meighan
Daniel J. O'Bannon

Lois Wilson
Evans (Lydia's maid)

John Miltern
Gov. Stephan Albee

George Fawcett
Judge Homans

Julia Faye
Mrs. Drummond

Edythe Chapman
Adeline Bennett

Jack Mower
Drummond (policeman)

Dorothy Cumming
Eleanor Bellington

Casson Ferguson
Bobby Dorest

Michael D. Moore
Dicky Evans

James Neill
Butler

Sylvia Ashton
Prison Matron

Raymond Hatton
Brown

Mabel Van Buren
Prisoner

L. Guy Wilky
Cinematographer

Ethel Wales
Prisoner

Dale Fuller
Prisoner

Alvin Wyckoff
Cinematographer

Anne Bauchens
Editor

Edward Martindel
Wiley

Charles Ogle
Doctor

Guy Oliver
Musician

Shannon Day
Miss Santa Claus

Lucien Littlefield
Witness

Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Prison Inmate (uncredited)

Spottiswoode Aitken
Member of the Jury (uncredited)

Fred Kelsey
Member of the Jury (uncredited)

Sidney Bracey
Member of the Jury (uncredited)

Clarence Burton
Member of the Jury (uncredited)

Charles West
Member of the Jury (uncredited)

Allan Cavan
O'Bannon's Aide (uncredited)

Nora Cecil
Lydia's Chaperone (uncredited)

Louise Emmons
Prison Inmate in Laundry Sequence (uncredited)

Michael Dark
Party Guest (uncredited)

Robert Bolder
Speakeasy Doorman (uncredited)

Mildred Reardon
New Year's Guest (uncredited)

Mildred June
New Year's Guest (uncredited)

Theodore von Eltz
(uncredited)

J. Farrell MacDonald
(uncredited)
Media.



Details.
Release DateSeptember 24, 1922
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Manslaughter is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Thomas Meighan, Leatrice Joy, and Lois Wilson. It was scripted by Jeanie MacPherson adapted from the novel of the same name by Alice Duer Miller. Art direction and costumes for the film were done by Paul Iribe.
The film portrays its main character, Lydia Thorne, as a thrill-seeking, self-entitled, and wild woman who does not have a reputation of thinking before acting. She acts selfishly by dancing with other men in the presence of her husband and not providing help to her maid who is in dire straits due to her son's health. She is eventually taken to court after she crashes into a motorcycle cop during a high-speed chase. She is then prosecuted by her husband, Daniel O'Bannon, a lawyer, and is imprisoned for manslaughter. After her sentence, Lydia comes out of jail to find her husband has become an alcoholic.
As part of Lydia's wild life, the film was one of the first to depict an orgy, as well as other acts considered debaucherous in upper-class society. Manslaughter is generally cited as being the first American feature film to show an erotic kiss between two members of the same sex.
The novel was adapted again by Paramount in 1930 and 1931 in French.
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