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The Garden of Weeds
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Wikipedia article
'The Garden of Weeds' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by James Cruze and starring Betty Compson. It is based on the Broadway play 'Garden of Weeds' by Leon Gordon and Doris Marquette.[http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=9512 'Garden of Weeds' as a play performed on Broadway at the Gaiety Theatre, April-May 1924] Famous Players-Lasky produced and Paramount Pictures distributed.[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=9289 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'The Garden of Weeds']
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, of great wealth but lacking in the better traits, Phillip Flagg (Fellowes) maintains an estate which he calls his "Garden of Weeds" where he entertains girls of the stage until he tires of them. Attracted to Dorothy Delbridge (Compson), he has her fired because she refuses to accept his attentions. She later accept his invitation and becomes the mistress of "Garden of Weeds." Meeting Douglas Crawford (Baxter), another wealthy chap, she breaks with Flagg and marries him but has not the courage to reveal her past. Crawford engages Flaggs butler, who threatens to reveal the secret. Flagg comes to see Crawford and arranges to fleece him in a shady deal. He begins to taunt her with veiled jibes to get even. Dorothy, unable to stand it any longer, reveals the truth. Crawford says he has known it all the time and proceeds to thrash Flagg, who falls over the balcony railing and is killed.
Cast
Preservation
With no prints of 'The Garden of Weeds' located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.5547/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Garden of Weeds'] it is a lost film.
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