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Shackles of Gold is a american film of genre Drama directed by Herbert Brenon released in USA on 30 april 1922 with William Farnum

Shackles of Gold (1922)

Shackles of Gold
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Released in USA 30 april 1922
Length 1h
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Romance

Shackles of Gold is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Herbert Brenon and starring William Farnum, Alfred Loring and Marie Shotwell. It is an adaptation of the 1908 play Samson by Henri Bernstein with the setting moved from France to America. A woman from an aristocratic but poor family is pressured by her relatives to marry a wealthy financier.

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William Farnum

(John Gibbs)
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