Alien Souls

1916 lost silent film directed by Frank Reicher

May 11, 1916 (1916-05-11)

Running time

5 reelsCountryUSALanguageSilent film (English intertitles)

Alien Souls is a 1916 silent film feature directed by Frank Reicher and starring Sessue Hayakawa, his real-life wife Tsuru Aoki and Earle Foxe. It was developed as a vehicle for Hayakawa after the success of his film The Cheat.^[2]^[3]

Cast

Sessue Hayakawa - Sakata
Tsuru Aoki - Yuri Chan
Earle Foxe - Aleck Lindsay
Grace Benham - Mrs. Conway
J. Parks Jones - Jack Holloway
Violet Malone - Gertrude Van Ness
Dorothy Abril - Geraldine Smythe

Preservation

With no prints of Alien Souls located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[4]

References

^ "Film Flickerings". Iowa City Press-Citizen. Iowa City, Iowa. August 24, 1916. p. 3 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Alien Souls". afi.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
^ "Progressive Silent Film List: Alien Souls". silentera.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: Alien Souls". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 21, 2024.