Dangerous Hours

Dangerous Hours
Dangerous Hours
Directed by Fred Niblo
Produced by Thomas H. Ince
Written by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
C. Gardner Sullivan
Starring Lloyd Hughes
Barbara Castleton
Cinematography George Barnes
Release date(s) December 1919
Country United States
Language Silent
English intertitles

Dangerous Hours is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Fred Niblo. Prints of the film survive in the UCLA Film and Television Archive.[1] It premiered in February 1920.[2]

The film was based on a short story published in the Saturday Evening Post. Its working title was Americanism (Versus Bolshevism), the title of a pamphlet published by Ole Hanson, the mayor of Seattle who claimed to have broken the Seattle General Strike in 1919.

The film tells the story of an attempted Russian infiltration of American industry. It includes a depiction of the "nationalization of women" under Bolshevism, including "extras on horseback, rounding up women, throwing them into dungeons and beating them."[3] College graduate John King is sympathetic to the left in a general way. Then he is seduced, both romantically and politically, by Sophia Guerni, a female agitator. Her superior is the Bolshevik Boris Blotchi, who has a "wild dream of planting the scarlet seed of terrorism in American soil."[4] Sofia and Boris turn their attention to the Weston shipyards that are managed by John's childhood sweetheart. The workers have valid grievances, but the Bolsheviks set out to manipulate the situation. They are "the dangerous element following in the wake of labor as riffraff and ghouls follow an army."[5] When they threaten John's earlier love, he has an epiphany and renounces revolutionary doctrine.[6]

A reviewer in Picture Play protested the film's stew of radical beliefs and strategies: "Please, oh please, look up the meaning of the words 'bolshevik,' and 'soviet.' Neither of them mean [sic] 'anarchist,' 'scoundrel' or 'murderer' – really they don't!"[7]

Contents

Cast

See also

Red Scare of 1919-20

References

  1. ^ "Silent Era: Dangerous Hours". silentera. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DangerousHours1920.html. Retrieved 2008-06-07. 
  2. ^ Hanson, 187
  3. ^ Brownlow, 260
  4. ^ Brownlow, 263
  5. ^ Brownlow, 263
  6. ^ Brownlow, 263
  7. ^ Brownlow, 264
  • Brownlow, Kevin, The Parade's Gone By... (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968)
  • Hanson, Patricia King and Gevinson, Alan, eds., The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, vol.F1: Feature Films, 1911-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), 187

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