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On the Stroke of Three

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Wikipedia article




'On the Stroke of Three' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Kenneth Harlan, Madge Bellamy, and Mary Carr.Munden p. 565[http://silentera.com/PSFL/data/O/OnTheStrokeOfThree1924.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'On the Stroke of Three'] at silentera.com

Plot



As described in a review in a film magazine, Lafayette Jordan (Davis), financier, plans to inundate Caribou Canyon and turn it into a reservoir, but the villagers will not sell him their land. Among the resentful villagers is Judson Forrest (Harlan), who wants to be an inventor. Mary Jordan (Bellamy), daughter of the financier, is hurt and spends a night at his home. Learning of his attitude toward her father, she poses as a domestic at the Jordan home. Later, in New York, Judson looks her up. He is trying to sell his invention and, to get funds, he mortgages his home. The village banker, in league with Jordan, sells the financier the mortgage, and a foreclosure threatens when Jordan's business agent Henry Mogridge (Miljan) double-crosses Judson. The youth thinks Mary working against him. Friends come to Judson's aid and he pays off the mortgage in the nick of time. He learns that Jordan knew nothing of the methods employed by his agent and that Mary loves him.

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Preservation



With no prints of 'On the Stroke of Three' located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7977/default.html Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: 'On the Stroke of Three'] it is a lost film.

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Bibliography



* Munden, Kenneth White. 'The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1'. University of California Press, 1997.


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