A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Unknown player (far left), Monroe Salisbury, Jack Mower, Kathleen Kirkham and Margarita Fischer (in bed). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Margarita Fischer [Marta Van Dyne], Jack Mower [John Lane], Monroe Salisbury [Doctor Lorenz], Kathleen Kirkham [Marian Brooks], Joseph Harris (Joe Harris) [the butler]

Pollard Picture Plays Company production; distributed by Mutual Film Corporation [Mutual Star Productions]. / Produced by Harry A. Pollard. Scenario by Harry A. Pollard, from a screen story by J. Edward Hungerford. / Released 2 April 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The film was released in Portugal as Infernal Obsessão on 22 July 1921.

Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the USC School of Cinematic Arts Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive film archive [incomplete 35mm preservation negative, incomplete 35mm preservation positive].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 15 October 2017.

References: Film credits, film viewing : Website-AFI; Website-IMDb.

Home video: DVD.