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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The Green Temptation
(1922) United States of America
B&W : Six reels / 6165 feet
Directed by William D. Taylor (William Desmond Taylor)

Cast: Betty Compson [Genelle, also known as Coralyn and Joan Parker], Mahlon Hamilton [John Allenby], Theodore Kosloff [Gaspard], Neely Edwards [Pitou], Edward Burns [Hugh Duyker], Lenore Lynard [Duchesse de Chazarin], Mary Thurman [Dolly Dunton], William von Hardenburg [Monsieur Jounet], Betty Brice [Mrs. Weedon Duyker], Arthur Hull [Weedon Duyker]

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation [It’s a Paramount Picture]. / Scenario by Monte M. Katterjohn and Julia Crawford Ivers, from the short story “The Noose” by Constance Lindsay Skinner. Cinematography by James C. Van Trees. Presented by Adolph Zukor. / © 29 March 1922 by Famous Players-Lasky Corporation [LP17705]. Premiered circa 18 March 1922 in New York, New York. Released 2 April 1922. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] The film may have been cut to five reels for general release.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 16 October 2025.

References: Website-AFI.