Cast
What it is about
A mother is determined to decide whom her daughter should associate with, convinced she knows what is best for her. When the young woman rebels, the mother begins to look back and realizes how much the same pressure shaped her own life. Her memories are shown through flashback scenes that follow a parallel story.
How it was made
The roughly fifty-minute film is based on the 1923 stage play A Square Peg by Lewis Beach, adapted for the screen by Agnes Christine Johnston. Directed by Hobart Henley, it stars Claire Windsor, Bert Roach, William Haines, Lucille Ricksen and Robert Agnew. Its structure relies on flashbacks that explain the protagonist's past, using the device to move the story between two periods.
Reception and legacy
It was released in 1925 in the United States, the same month Lucille Ricksen died of tuberculosis. Only a partial print survives, held by the George Eastman Museum, which shapes how it can be studied today. It is a modestly produced silent drama whose main interest lies in its family theme and its retrospective construction.
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Trivia
The actress's death
Lucille Ricksen died of tuberculosis in the same month the film was released.
An incomplete print
Only a partial print of the film survives, held in the collection of the George Eastman Museum.
More films by Hobart Henley
Bad Sister
The Big Pond
A Slave of Fashion
The Flame of Life
So This Is Marriage?
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