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Through the Dark is a american film of genre Drama directed by George William Hill released in USA on 6 january 1924 with Colleen Moore

Through the Dark (1924)

Through the Dark
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Released in USA 6 january 1924
Length 1h20
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Crime

Through the Dark is a 1924 American silent mystery/crime drama film directed by George W. Hill, and starring Colleen Moore and Forrest Stanley as the popular detective character Boston Blackie. The film's scenario, written by Frances Marion, is based on the short story "The Daughter of Mother McGinn" by Jack Boyle.

Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productionss and distributed through Goldwyn Pictures, the film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors upon its release for its depiction of unspecified "taboo" subject matter. An incomplete print of Through the Dark is preserved at the Library of Congress.

Actors

Colleen Moore

(Mary McGinn)Forrest Stanley

(Boston Blackie)Margaret Seddon

(Mother McGinn)Hobart Bosworth

(Warden)Wade Boteler

(Detective O'Leary)
And :
George Cooper
Carmelita Geraghty
Eddie Phillips
Maxine Elliott Hicks
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