Scott Lord Silent Film: Tale of Two Cities (Frank Lloyd, 1917)

Already a remake of a 1911 Tale of Two Cities directed by Charles Kent, the seven reel 1917 film adaptation directed by Frank Lloyd for the Fox Film Corporation starred William Farnum in a dual role. Photoplay Magazine jubilantly claimed that the the "Won't You Hold My Hand" scene had made Florence Vidor famous as an overnight sensation. "Miss Vidor is a splendid example of the writer's theories on the chances of breaking into pictures." In the film there is a cut-in insert shot of the two joining hands.

During 1917 Frank Lloyd again directed William Farnum and Florence Vidor in the five reel lost silent film "American Methods". The following year Frank Lloyd directed William Farnum in the World War I drama "For Freedom". Made for the Fox Film Corporation the film too is a lost silent film, of which no copies exist. It is uncertain whether there exists a copy of the 1918 silent film "Riders of Of the Purple Sage", in which Frank Lloyd again directed William Farnum, although lobby cards and magazine articles can be found.

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