Dusk to Dawn

Dusk to Dawn
Dusk to Dawn
	Film still with Florence Vidor and Jack Mulhall
Directed by	King Vidor
Written by	Frank Howard Clark
Based on	"The Shuttle Soul"; by Katherine Hill
Produced by	King Vidor
Starring	Florence Vidor
Cinematography	George Barnes
Distributed by	Associated Exhibitors
Release date	September 2, 1922;
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Dusk to Dawn is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor. It is unknown whether any recording of the film survives; it may be a lost film.^[1]^[2]

Plot

An Indian maid and American girl (both played by Florence Vidor) share a single soul which shifts between them each day when they are awake.^[3]

Cast

Florence Vidor as Marjorie Latham / Aziza
Jack Mulhall as Philip Randall
Truman Van Dyke as Ralph Latham
James Neill as John Latham
Lydia Knott as Mrs. Latham
Herbert Fortier as Mark Randall
Norris Johnson as Babette
Nellie Anderson as Marua
Sidney Franklin as Nadar Gungi
Peter Burke as Itjah Nyhal Singh

Production

Dusk to Dawn would mark the final professional collaboration between King Vidor and Florence Vidor. By the early 1920s, Florence Vidor had emerged as a major film star in her own right and wished to pursue her career independently of her spouse. The couple divorced in 1926, and shortly thereafter Florence married violinist Jascha Heifetz ^[4]

Theme

Based on a novel The Shuttle Soul by Katherine Hill, the story dramatizes the far Eastern concepts of “migrating souls” advanced by Theopism popular in the United States during the 1920s. Vidor may have identified with Theophist methods of faith healing that were compatible with his Christian Science principles, encouraging positive thinking over medical interventions.^[5]

Footnotes

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Dusk to Dawn". Silent Era. Retrieved April 9, 2009.
^ "Dusk to Dawn". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.
^ "The Shadow Stage". Photoplay. 22 (6). Chicago: Photoplay Publishing Company: 67. November 1922. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
^ Baxter 1976, p. 14-15, p. 18, marriage to Boardman
^ Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 30, p. 38

References

Baxter, John. 1976. King Vidor. Simon & Schuster, Inc. Monarch Film Studies. LOC Card Number 75-23544.
Durgnat, Raymond and Simmon, Scott. 1988. King Vidor, American. University of California Press, Berkeley. ISBN 0-520-05798-8

External links

Dusk to Dawn at IMDb

[silentera-1] "Progressive Silent Film List: Dusk to Dawn". Silent Era. Retrieved April 9, 2009.

[LOC-2] "Dusk to Dawn". American Silent Feature Film Survival Database. Retrieved January 9, 2014.

[3] "The Shadow Stage". Photoplay. 22 (6). Chicago: Photoplay Publishing Company: 67. November 1922. Retrieved December 9, 2013.

[4] Baxter 1976, p. 14-15, p. 18, marriage to Boardman

[5] Durgnat and Simmon 1988 p. 30, p. 38

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