The Willow Tree (1920)
1h
Running Time
January 31, 1920Release Date
Plot.
After Ned Hamilton is rejected by his girlfriend, he travels to Japan where he hears an old legend about the Willow Tree Princess, who kills herself so that her lover will go off to battle. When he makes a purchase from Tomotada, an image maker, he meets his pretty daughter O-Riu, and they recreate the events of the legend.
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Cast & Crew.
Viola Dana
O-Riu
Edward Connelly
Tomotada
Pell Trenton
Ned Hamilton
Harry Dunkinson
Jeoffrey Fuller
Alice Wilson
Mary Fuller
Frank Tokunaga
John Charles Goto
Togo Yamamoto
Itomudo
George Kuwa
Kimura
Tom Ricketts
Priest
Yutaka Abe
Nogo
J.H. Benrimo
Theatre Play
Harrison Rhodes
Theatre Play
June Mathis
Screenplay
Henry Otto
Director
John Arnold
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
The Willow Tree is a surviving 1920 American silent film directed by Henry Otto and distributed by Metro Pictures. The film is based on a Broadway play, The Willow Tree, by J. H. Benrimo and Harrison Rhodes. Fay Bainter starred in the Broadway play in 1917. The film stars Viola Dana and is preserved in the George Eastman House Motion Picture Collection.