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 Velvet Hand
(1918) United States of America
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Douglas Gerrard

Cast: Fritzi Brunette [Gianna Russelli], William Conklin [Count Paul Trovelli], Eugene Corey [Russino Russelli], Fred Turner [Russo Russelli], Wedgewood Nowell [Prince Visconte], Carmen Phillips [Countess Michetti], Nicholas Dunaew (Nick Dunaew) [the secretary]

Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, production; distributed by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated, through The Universal Film Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. / Scenario by F. McGrew Willis, from a screen story by Edith Barnard Delano. Cinematography by Victor Milner. / © 17 September 1918 by Bluebird Photoplays, Incorporated [LP12870]. Released 30 September 1918. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Working title: Vendetta’s Daughter.

Drama.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 30 November 2023.

References: Hirschhorn-Universal p. 30 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.