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Rex Ingram: Alice Terry
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Rex Ingram was one of the great visual stylists of the silent cinema. Strong performances from Ingram's wife Alice Terry and the marvelous Lewis Stone. While Ramon Novarro has top billing, Stone actually has the lead role - Ramon's role is a supporting one as an evil nobleman. But he is splendid - darkly handsome with a little beard and a monocle - and convincingly evil. It is interesting to see him before he became type-cast as the energetic sweet boy - he shows here that he had more range as an actor than he was allowed to show.
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This Drury Lane melodrama, based on Cecil Raleigh's play, was given top-rate direction by Rex Ingram. Lord Altcar (Winter Hall) wants his daughter, Winifred (Francelia Billington), to marry Lord Burford (Joseph Kilgour). Instead, she secretly weds Michael Wain (Frank Brownlee), the gamekeeper. Lord Altcar angrily flogs Wain and fires him -- separating the lovers. Years pass, and Lady Winifred becomes the owner of Altcar Manor. Her daughter, Dora (Alice Terry), is sent to be raised in a Swiss convent where she becomes engaged to an American artist, John Gillespie (Norman Kennedy).
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In 1925, Ingram acquired the Victorine Studios in Nice, France, and the couple moved there and made several films on location in North Africa, Spain, and Italy for MGM and other studios. It was while there that Alice made her favorite film, “Mare Nostrum” (1926), playing the part of Freya Talberg, opposite Antonio Moreno. This is perhaps her best performance, allowing her to express a broad range of emotions, and the location shooting in Barcelona, Pompeii, and Paestum, as well as Nice, gave an authentic feel to the story of a beautiful spy working for the Germans during the first World War.
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