The Eternal Sin

The Queen Mother (Working title), Lucretia Borgia (Working title)

Directed by: Herbert Brenon, USA, 1917

USA, 1917
Szenenphoto aus The Eternal Sin, © Brenon Film Corporation


Cast and Credits

Production Herbert Brenon Film Corporation
Distribution Herbert Brenon Film Corporation
Producer Herbert Brenon
Director Herbert Brenon
Scenario George Edwardes-Hall
Herbert Brenon
Based on Victor Hugo [Play: Lucrèce Borgia]
Director of Photography David Calcagni
J. Roy Hunt
Editor J. Roy Hunt [(as James McKay)]
Art Director J. Roy Hunt [Technical director]
Cast Florence Reed [Lucrezia Borgia]
William E. Shay [The Duke of Ferrara]
Stephen Grattan [Lucretia's Brother]
Richard Barthelmess [Gennaro]
Alex Shannon [Rustighello (as Alexander Shannon)]
Alex Shannon [Maffio]
Alex Shannon [Astolpo]
Henry Armetta [The Jester]
Juliet Brenon [Blanca]
Jane Fearnley [Princess Negroni]
Henrietta Gilbert [Flametta]
Tony Merlo [Petrucci (as Anthony Merlo)]
Tony Merlo [Liverretto]
Tony Merlo [Jeppo]
William Welsh [Gubetta]
William Welsh

Technical specifications
Category: Feature Film
Technical Details: Format: 35 mm, 1:1,33 - Ratio: 1:1,33 - Black and White,, 6000 feet, 6 reels
Sound System: silent
First Screening: March 15, 1917 in USA
US Copyright: March 24, 1917 - ©LP.10448
Survival Status: No holdings located in archives

General Information

The Eternal Sin is a motion picture produced in the year 1917 as a USA production. The Film was directed by Herbert Brenon, with Florence Reed, William E. Shay, Stephen Grattan, Richard Barthelmess, Alex Shannon, in the leading parts. We have currently no synopsis of this picture on file; There are no reviews of The Eternal Sin available.

Bibliography - Exhibitor's Trade Review, 31 March 1917 , pg 1181.
- Motography, 7 April 1917 , pg 746.
- The Motion Picture News, 31 March 1917 , pg 2036.
- The Moving Picture World, 6 December 1917 , pg 784.
- The New York Dramatic Mirror, 24 March 1917 , pg 28.
- Variety, 23 March 1917 , pg 21.
- Wid's Film Daily, 22 March 1917 p, pg 188-89.

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