Hearts Aflame (film)

Hearts Aflame
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Directed by Reginald Barker
Written by J. G. Hawks
Gordon Rigby
Based on the 1922 novel Timber
by Harold Titus
Starring Frank Keenan
Anna Q. Nilsson
Craig Ward
Cinematography Percy Hilburn (French)
Production
company
Louis B. Mayer Productions
Distributed by Metro Pictures Corporation
Pathé Consortium Cinéma (France)
Release date
  • January 1, 1923 (1923-01-01)
[1]
Running time
 8110 feet[1] (9 reels)
Country United States
Language Silent

Hearts Aflame is a 1923 American melodrama film starring Frank Keenan, Anna Q. Nilsson and Craig Ward. The son of a retired timber baron meets and falls in love with a Michigan woman who refuses to sell her land unless the buyer promises to replant to replace the trees that are to be cut down.

Production

Production started in early July 1922.[1]

On August 28, a stunt went terribly awry in the Kootenays, British Columbia.[2] "A six acre plot of ground was soaked with 700 gallons of gasoline and set afire for a scene in which Miss Nilsson was to drive a locomotive through the flames."[1][2] Nilsson was severely burned and required a week to recuperate.[1][2] Craig Ward and cameraman Percy Hilburn, filming from "an asbestos cabinet built on the side of the locomotive", were also injured.[1]

Cast

  • Frank Keenan as Luke Taylor
  • Anna Q. Nilsson as Helen Foraker
  • Craig Ward as John Taylor
  • Richard Headrick as Bobby Kildare
  • Russell Simpson as Black Joe
  • Richard Tucker as Philip Rowe
  • Stanton Heck as Jim Harris
  • Martha Mattox as Aunty May
  • Walt Whitman as Charley Stump
  • Joan Standing as Ginger
  • Ralph Cloninger as Thad Parker
  • Lee Shumway as Milt Goddard
  • John Dill as Lucius Kildare
  • Gordon Magee as Sheriff (as Gordon McGee)
  • Irene Hunt as Jennie Parker

Preservation status

The film is now lost.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Hearts Aflame (1923)". American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films.
  2. 1 2 3 John Mackie (March 24, 2018). "This Week in History: 1923: The first 'super-picture' filmed in B.C. hits town". Vancouver Sun.
  3. ↑ The Library of Congress/FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog:Hearts Aflame
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