Alice Calhoun, Kitty Bradbury, George Pierce & Percy Marmont
in a scene from The Midnight Alarm
Released 19 Aug 1923 New York
Genre: Melodrama
Note: Cullen Landis, who co-starred in this film with Alice Calhoun, was her frequent acting partner in a number of films. Alice plays dual roles in this movie.
Movie review:
"This old-fashioned melodrama based on the play [The Midnight Alarm: a Drama in Five Acts, c. 1889] by J.W. Harkins, Jr. was packed with fun and thrills. Silas Carrington (Joseph Kilgour murders Thornton shortly after being made executor of his estate. He then tries to woo the widow, but Mrs. Thornton (Alice Calhoun) will have nothing to do with him. Finally, to get away from his attention, Mrs. Thornton takes her little girl and tries to flee, but she dies in an auto accident. The child is rescued but disappears. Her maternal grandparents, the Tilwells (George Pierce and Kittie Bradbury), spend years searching for her, as does Carrington. She turns up under the name of Sparkle (also played by Calhoun), a waif who runs a newsstand with the help of a crippled orphan, Aggie (Maxine Elliot Hicks). Carrington's attempt to destroy the papers, which identify Sparkle as the heir to the Thornton estate, are foiled by handsome fireman Harry Westmore (Percy Marmont). Carrington falls to his death while trying to escape a fire, the Tilwells reunite with their granddaughter, and Sparkle falls in love with Westmore." - Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide
Screen adaption by C. Graham Baker; Director of photography: Stephen Smith, Jr.
(c) Vitagraph Co. of America 7/30/1923 LP 19257
*Director David Smith also sometimes used the moniker "David Divad" in other films.
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Alice Calhoun
in a scene from
The Midnight Alarm
Alice Calhoun and
Cullen Landis
in a scene from
The Midnight Alarm
