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The Runaway (1926 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Runaway' is a 1926 American silent film melodrama directed by William C. deMille and starring Clara Bow, Warner Baxter, William Powell, and George Bancroft. The plot involves a movie star who erroneously assumes that she has murdered someone and flees to Kentucky. The cinematography was by Charles P. Boyle.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/Runaway1926.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Runaway' at silentera.com] Retrieved June 23, 2016[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=11814 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'The Runaway'] Retrieved June 23, 2016
Plot
Cynthia Meade (Clara Bow), a wild, high spirited New York movie actress, meets Jack Harrison (William Powell), a wealthy young New Yorker, in a Tennessee city. When he is accidentally shot and dangerously wounded while with Cynthia in an apartment, she realizes how hard it will be to prove her innocence and flees, thinking Harrison dead.
On a lonely road. Cynthia, half hysterical and nearly exhausted, appeals to Wade Murrell (Warner Baxter), a young mountaineer on the way back to his Kentucky home. He believes that she is running away from danger and takes her with him. Arriving at his house, he is disgusted when he learns she cannot cook or do any of the daily chores of hill women. But she finally wins the confidence of his mother (Edythe Chapman). Several weeks later, Harrison, the supposedly dead man, appears, saying he is seeking the person who shot and left him for dead. Murrell does not know at first that Cynthia is the person Harrison suspects, and the two become good friends. The presence of a painted woman, as the hill people call Cynthia arouses a terrific antipathy toward Murrell, and he narrowly avoids being killed by one of their number. In the end, Cynthia is forced to choose between her old and new lover, but not before the three have passed through many crises.'The Pomona Progress Bulletin' (CA) 17 Sep 1926, p 10.
Cast
*Clara Bow as Cynthia Meade
*Warner Baxter as Wade Murrell
*William Powell as Jack Harrison
*George Bancroft as Lesher Skidmore
*Edythe Chapman as Mrs. Murrell
Preservation status
'The Runaway' is believed to be lost.[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8846/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Runaway'] Retrieved June 23, 2016
References
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