The Nth Commandment (1923)

  • NR
  • 03/18/1923 (US)
  • Drama
  • 1h 20m

She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks.

Overview

A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”

Frank Borzage

Director

Frances Marion

Writer

Cast

Colleen Moore's headshot

Colleen Moore

Sarah Juke
James Morrison's headshot

James Morrison

Harry Smith
Eddie Phillips's headshot

Eddie Phillips

Jimmie Fitzgibbons
Charlotte Merriam's headshot

Charlotte Merriam

Angine Sprunt
George Cooper's headshot

George Cooper

Max Plute

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