Broken Fetters

1916 film

July 3, 1916 (1916-07-03)

Running time

5 reels (approximately 50 minutes)CountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent film
English intertitles

Broken Fetters is a 1916 American silent drama film written and directed by Rex Ingram. Violet Mersereau played the lead role. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey where Universal Studios and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Production

Broken Fetters was produced by Bluebird Photoplays, one of the three brands of motion pictures then being released by Universal Film Manufacturing Company.^[4]^: 13^[5]

Cast

Kittens Reichert as Mignon, as a child
Violet Mersereau as Mignon, grown up
Charles Francis as Kong Hee
Earl Simmons as Bruce King
Frank Smith as Foo Shai
William Dyer as The Captain
Paul Panzer as Carleton Demarest
Isabel Patterson as Mrs. Demarest
William Garwood as Lawrence Demarest
Paddy Sullivan as Mike
Guy Morville as The Detective
Charles Fang as Chang

References

^ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
^ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. Archived from the original on 2011-04-25. Retrieved 2011-05-30.
^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5
^ Hirschhorn, Clive (1985) [1983]. The Universal Story. New York: Crown Publishers. ISBN 0-7064-1873-5.
^ "Bluebird Photoplays, Inc". AFI Catalog of Feature Films. American Film Institute. Retrieved 2016-01-08.