The Green Temptation

The Green Temptation
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Directed by	William Desmond Taylor
Produced by	Adolph Zukor; Jesse Lasky
Written by	Julia Crawford Ivers (scenario); Monte Katterjohn (scenario)
Based on	"The Noose"; by Constance Lindsay Skinner
Starring	Betty Compson; Theodore Kosloff
Cinematography	James Van Trees
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	April 2, 1922;
Running time	60 minutes; 6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Green Temptation is a lost[1] 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Betty Compson.[2][3] It was written by Julia Crawford Ivers and Monte Katterjohn based upon the short story "The Noose" by Constance Lindsay Skinner.

Betty Compson in a film still.

Still with Betty Compson.

Plot

Betty plays a girl who is involved in the Paris criminal underworld. During World War I she becomes a wartime Red Cross nurse and after the war leaves for America for a new start in life. There she meets an old wartime colleague (Kosloff), a criminal who is conniving to steal a valuable jewel called 'The Green Temptation'. Kosloff wants Betty to help him steal the jewel and when she balks he threatens to reveal her sordid past to her new American friends. Scotland Yard detective (Mahlon Hamilton), probably hired to protect the jewel, is sweet on Betty and kills Kosloff when he tries to steal the jewel.

The film has a similarity to von Stroheim's Foolish Wives released that same year.

Cast

Betty Compson as Genelle / Coralyn / Joan Parker
Mahlon Hamilton as John Allenby
Theodore Kosloff as Gaspard
Neely Edwards as Pitou
Edmund Burns as Hugh Duyker (credited as Edward Burns)
Lenore Lynard as Duchesse de Chazarin
Mary Thurman as Dolly Dunton
William von Hardenburg as Monsieur Jounet
Betty Brice as Mrs. Weedon Duyker
Arthur Hull as Mr. Weedon Duyker

Production

The Green Temptation was released posthumously following the unsolved murder of its director William Desmond Taylor on February 1, 1922.

References

External links

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[1] The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Green Temptation

[2] Progressive Silent Film List: The Green Temptation at silentera.com

[3] The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Green Temptation