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1917 American film

The Door Between

Directed by	Rupert Julian
Written by	Samuel Merwin (novel) Elliott J. Clawson
Starring	Ruth Clifford Monroe Salisbury George A. McDaniel
Production company	Universal Pictures
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	November 18, 1917 (1917-11-18)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The Door Between is a 1917 American silent drama film directed by Rupert Julian and starring Ruth Clifford, Monroe Salisbury and George A. McDaniel. It is adapted from a story that appeared in serialized editions in McClure's Magazine in 1913–14.

Plot

Archibald Crocker, an American alcoholic, visits a geisha house in Japan where the scientist Dr. Anthony Ives Eckhart is staying to study Asian music. Dr. Eckhart discovers that Crocker has come to Asia to kill his wife Heloise in revenge for leaving him. After Dr. Eckhart leaves for Beijing and finds Heloise, they fall in love. After Crocker arrives, Dr. Eckhart convinces him to consider sparing Heloise and seeking a legal separation instead. However, an hour later he arrives at Eckhart and Heloise's hotel to kill her. Crocker breaks his leg after Eckhart pushes him down a flight of stairs, and he decides to kill himself. Archibald and Heloise marry afterwards.

Cast

Ruth Clifford as Heloise Crocker
Monroe Salisbury as Anthony Ives Eckhart
George A. McDaniel as Archibald Crocker
W. H. Bainbridge as Sir Robert

References

Connelly p.341
^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2022-02-18.

Bibliography

Robert B. Connelly. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.

External links

The Door Between at IMDb

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Films directed by Rupert Julian

The Midnight Visitor (1914)
Out of the Depths (1914)
The Hole in the Garden Wall (1914)
Where the Trail Led (1915)
Gilded Youth (1915)
A White Feather Volunteer (1915)
The Water Clue (1915)
One Hundred Years Ago (1915)
The Evil of Suspicion (1915)
The Underworld (1916)
The Red Lie (1916)
Arthur's Last Fling (1916)
As Fate Decides (1916)
John Pellet's Dream (1916)
The Blackmailer (1916)
The Desperado (1916)
The Eyes of Fear (1916)
The Marriage of Arthur (1916)
Naked Hearts (1916)
The Fur Trimmed Coat (1916)
The False Gems (1916)
Little Boy Blue (1916)
Romance at Random (1916)
The Human Cactus (1916)
Bettina Loved a Soldier (1916)
The Evil Women Do (1916)
The Turn of the Wheel (1916)
The Bugler of Algiers (1916)
The Right to Be Happy (1916)
The Gift Girl (1917)
The Circus of Life (1917)
A Kentucky Cinderella (1917)
Mother O' Mine (1917)
The Mysterious Mr. Tiller (1917)
The Desire of the Moth (1917)
The Door Between (1917)
The Savage (1917)
Hands Down (1918)
Hungry Eyes (1918)
The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin (1918)
Midnight Madness (1918)
Fires of Youth (1918)
Creaking Stairs (1919)
The Millionaire Pirate (1919)
The Fire Flingers (1919)
The Sleeping Lion (1919)
The Honey Bee (1920)
The Girl Who Ran Wild (1922)
Merry-Go-Round (1923)
Love and Glory (1924)
Hell's Highroad (1925)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Three Faces East (1926)
Silence (1926)
The Yankee Clipper (1927)
The Country Doctor (1927)
The Leopard Lady (1928)
Walking Back (1928)
Love Comes Along (1930)
The Cat Creeps (1930)

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