The Diamond from the Sky

Infobox Movie
name = The Diamond from the Sky


image_size = 225px
caption = Newspaper portfolio
imdb_id = 0005195
producer =
director = Jacques Jaccard
William Desmond Taylor
writer = Roy L. McCardell
starring = Charlotte Burton
William Russell
Irving Cummings
Jack Hoxie
George Field
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor = American Film Company
released = 1915
runtime = U.S.:900 min (30 episodes)
language = Silent film
English intertitles

"The Diamond from the Sky" was a popular 1915 American silent short classic adventure film serial directed by Jacques Jaccard and William Desmond Taylor starring Charlotte Burton, William Russell, and Irving Cummings. The film is considered to be lost. cite web |url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DiamondfromtheSky1915.html |title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Diamond from the Sky |accessdate=2008-02-18|work=Silent Era]

"Tagline:" Emphatically the greatest film ever produced, a ceasless cataract of action - The Serial Wonderful!

Plot

"The Heritage of Hate". The prologue depicts the finding of “The Diamond From the Sky” which later becomes the heirloom of the Stanley family, while the two reels of the first chapter show the intense rivalry between Colonel Arthur Stanley and Judge Lamar Stanley, Virginia aristocrats and descendants of Lord Arthur Stanley, two hundred years later.

When a girl is born to the young wife of Colonel Arthur Stanley, the latter, to retain an earldom and “The Diamond From the Sky,” buys a new born Gypsy baby boy and substitutes it for his own babe. Judge Lamar Stanley visits Colonel Arthur Stanley’s home to see the child just as Hagar, the gypsy woman, bursts into the room to demand her boy, and the colonel falls unconscious across the library table.

Other cast

* Lottie Pickford .... Esther Stanley, the Gypsy Heroine. The role intended for Pickford's sister Mary Pickford.cite book
last = Stedman
first = Raymond William
title = Serials: Suspense and Drama By Installment
origyear = 1971
publisher = University of Oklahoma Press
isbn = 9780806109275
pages = pp. 35
chapter = 2. The Perils of Success ]
* Eugenie Forde .... Hagar Harding
* George Periolat .... Luke Lovell
* Orral Humphrey .... Marmaduke Smythe
* William Tedmarsh .... Quabba, the Hunchback
* Jack Hoxie (as Hart Hoxie) .... Matt Hardigan
* George Field
* Rhea Mitchell
* Roy Stewart
* Charles Watt

Production

The story was purposely left unfinished, in the same manner as "Million Dollar Mystery". A prize of $5,000 was offered for its completion, which was won by Terry Ramsaye.cite book
last = Lahue
first = Kalten C.
title = Continued Next Week
year =
publisher =
isbn =
pages = pp. 66
chapter = 1. A Bolt From The Blue ]

Gallery

ee also

* List of film serials
* List of film serials by studio

References

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