Scen. Writer: Robert W. Chambers, based on his novel of the same name (New York, 1914)
Dir. of photog: Stephen Smith, Jr. (as Steve Smith, Jr.)
Cast (in credits order): Lou Tellegin, Anna Q. Nilsson, Norman Kerry, Alice Calhoun, Stuart Holmes and Henry A. Barrows.
Note: An earlier film version of this story was produced in 1918 as The Women Between Friends, directed and written by Tom Terris, who also directed Alice Calhoun in Captain Swift (1920).
Author Robert W. Chambers began as a struggling artist and former roommate of Charles Dana Gibson, was renowned for his stories with themes of paranormal phenomena, and this tale is no exception.
From a movie review:
"...this silent melodrama from the pioneering Vitagraph Company starred one of the era's great matinee idols, the Dutch-born Lou Tellegen. Tellegen, who had been a leading man to stage diva Sarah Bernhardt, played David Drene, whose supposedly docile wife, Jessica (Anna Q. Nilsson) suddenly elopes with her husband's best friend, Jack (Norman Kery). Jessica's guilt drives her to suicide, and the affair goes unnoticed for years, until the day David announces his engagement to Cecile (Alice Calhoun) and is contacted by a jealous rival, Quair (Stuart Holmes). The evil Quair obligingly tells David of Jack's treachery, and the latter proposes to kill himself. But David, using telepathic powers, prevents the tragedy and forgives him. Between Friends was directed by Vitagraph's founder, J. Stuart Blackton."
- Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
(c) Vitagraph Co. of America 4/8/1924 LP 20116
J. Stuart Blackton
From a fan magazine, illustration of a scene from Between Friends.
