The Devil-Stone

The Devil-Stone
Directed by	Cecil B. DeMille
Produced by	Cecil B. DeMille
Written by	Beatrice DeMille Jeanie MacPherson Leighton Osmun
Starring	Geraldine Farrar Wallace Reid Hobart Bosworth Tully Marshall
Cinematography	Alvin Wyckoff
Editing by	Cecil B. DeMille
Studio	Famous Players-Lasky/Artcraft
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	December 16, 1917 (1917-12-16)
Running time	60 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

The Devil-Stone is a 1917 romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film had sequences filmed in the Handschiegl Color Process (billed as the "DeMille-Wyckoff Process").

Only two reels of this film are known to survive, in the American Film Institute collection at the Library of Congress.^[1]

Plot

Fisherwoman Marcia Manot (Farrar) finds an emerald which belonged to a Norse queen, and is cursed. Fortune hunter Silas Martin (Marshall) marries her to get the emerald.

Cast

• Geraldine Farrar as Marcia Manot
• Wallace Reid as Guy Sterling
• Hobart Bosworth as Robert Judson
• Tully Marshall as Silas Martin
• James Neill as Simpson
• Mabel Van Buren
• Lillian Leighton
• Gustav von Seyffertitz as Stephen Densmore
• Horace B. Carpenter
• Ernest Joy
• Burwell Hamrick
• Raymond Hatton
• Theodore Roberts

See also

• List of early color feature films
• List of incomplete or partially lost films

References

1. ^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Devil-Stone". Silent Era. http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DevilStone1917.html. Retrieved 2009-11-29. 

External links

• The Devil-Stone at the Internet Movie Database