The Green Temptation

The Green Temptation
Film Poster
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 dates	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 still for the film.

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

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Green Temptation.

The Green Temptation at the Internet Movie Database
synopsis at AllMovie
Lobby card and poster

Films directed by William Desmond Taylor

The Smouldering Spark (1914)*short
A Soul Astray (1914)*short
The Song of the Sea Shell (1914)*short
The Criminal Code (1914)uncredited
The Awakening (1914)*short
The Judge's Wife (1914)
When the Road Parts (1914)*short*
A Slice of Life (1914)*short
The Beggar Child (1914)*short
The Last Chapter (1914)
Brass Buttons (1914)*short
An Eye for an Eye (1915)
The High Hand (1915)
The Diamond from the Sky (1915)
Eyes That Cannot See (1915)*short
Tricks of Fate (1915)
The Lonesome Heart (1915)
The Soul of the Vase (1915)*short
Peggy Lynn, Burglar (1915)*short
A Woman Scorned (1915)
He Fell in Love with His Wife (1916)
Ben Blair (1916)
The Heart of Paula (1916)
Pasquale (1916)
The American Beauty (1916)
Davy Crockett (1916)
The Parson of Panamint (1916)
The House of Lies (1916)
Her Father's Son (1916)
Redeeming Love (1916)
Happiness of Three Women (1917)
Out of the Wreck (1917)
The World Apart (1917)
Big Timber (1917)
The Varmint (1917)
North of Fifty-Three (1917)
Jack and Jill (1917)
Tom Sawyer (1917)
The Spirit of '17 (1918)
Huck and Tom (1918)
Up the Road with Sallie (1918)
His Majesty, Bunker Bean (1918)
Mile-a-Minute Kendall (1918)
How Could You, Jean? (1918)
Johanna Enlists (1918)
Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
Anne of Green Gables (1919)
Huckleberry Finn (1920)
Judy of Rogue's Harbor (1920)
Nurse Marjorie (1920)
Jenny Be Good (1920)
The Soul of Youth (1920)
The Furnace (1920)
The Witching Hour (1921)
Sacred and Profane Love (1921)
Wealth (1921)
Beyond (1921)
Morals (1921)
The Green Temptation (1922)
The Top of New York (1922)

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