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Life's Whirlpool is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lionel Barrymore released in USA on 8 november 1917 with Ethel Barrymore

Life's Whirlpool (1917)

Life's Whirlpool
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Released in USA 8 november 1917
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OriginUSA
Genres Drama

Life's Whirlpool is a 1917 American silent drama film written and directed by Lionel Barrymore with his sister Ethel Barrymore as the star. This is the brother and sister's only collaboration on a silent film as director and star.

This film should not be confused with McTeague which was also known as Life's a Whirlpool, an early telling of Frank Norris's McTeague, and which was later filmed by Eric von Stroheim as Greed (1923).

The Lionel Barrymore directed film was produced by B. A. Rolfe and released through Metro Pictures. Barrymore would return for a short time to directing films in the early sound era. This is now considered to be a lost film.

Synopsis

As described in a film magazine, Esther (Barrymore), upon the death of her father, is advised by her kindly neighbors to get married. She is forced to sell the homestead and marries a domineering old miser named John Martin (Carrington), who lives with his maiden sister Ruth (Allen). Because she passes the time of day on the street with young men, her husband becomes jealous. He chokes her after he finds a letter from a former friend, Dr. Henry Grey (Hale), and she decides to leave him. While escaping with her son she is detained in a hut by a drunken farmer who tries to embrace her. She shoots him dead, and a posse arrests her for the death of her husband, who was found strangled in the library. However, the death confession of the real murderer clears her of her husband's death, and the return of her former friend from France completes her happiness.

Actors

Ethel Barrymore

(Esther Carey)Alan Hale

(Dr. Henry Grey)Ricca Allen

(Ruth Martin)Walter Hiers

(Fatty Holmes)Frank Leigh

(Dirk Kanset)
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