The Nth Commandment (1923)
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”
Director: Frank Borzage
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Colleen Moore as Sarah Juke |
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James Morrison as Harry Smith |
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Eddie Phillips as Jimmie Fitzgibbons |
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Charlotte Merriam as Angine Sprunt |
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George Cooper as Max Plute |
| Directing | Frank Borzage | Director |
| Production | Frances Marion | Producer |
| Writing | Frances Marion | Writer |
| Production | Frank Borzage | Producer |
| Camera | Chester A. Lyons | Director of Photography |