The Girl in the Dark

The Girl in the Dark
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Directed by	Stuart Paton
Screenplay by	Albert Kenyon
Based on	The Green Seal by Charles Edmonds Walk
Starring	Carmel Myers Ashton Dearholt Frank Tokunaga
Cinematography	Duke Hayward
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	March 4, 1918 (1918-03-04)
Running time	5 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Girl in the Dark is a 1918 American silent mystery film directed by Stuart Paton. The script was written by Albert Kenyon, based on the 1914 novel The Green Seal by Charles Edmonds Walk.[1][2]

Plot

A young woman named Lois who was branded with Chinese letters on her shoulder as a baby finds herself attracting nefarious attention as she grows older.[3]

Cast

• Carmel Myers as Lois Fox
• Ashton Dearholt as Brice Ferris
• Frank Tokunaga as Ming
• Frank Deshon as Lao Wing
• Harry Carter as Strang
• Alfred Allen as Chief of Police Struber
• Betty Schade as Sally

Preservation

With no copies of The Girl in the Dark held in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.

References

1. America Film Institute Staff; Gevinson, Alan; Afi, American Film; Institute, American Film (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520209640.
2. Goble, Alan (2011-09-08). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 9783110951943.
3. "Oriental Film at the Bank". The Akron Beacon Journal. 8 Mar 1918. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
4. Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: The Girl in the Dark

External links

• The Girl in the Dark at IMDb