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The Devil’s Partner
(1923) United States of America
B&W : Five reels / 4800 feet
Directed by Caryl S. Fleming

Cast: Norma Shearer [Jeanne], Charles Delaney [Sergeant Pierre Drummond], Henry Sedley [Henri, Jeanne’s father], Edward Roseman [Jules Payette, also known as The Devil’s Partner], Stanley Walpole

Iroquois Productions production; distributed by Independent Pictures Corporation. / Released June 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / [?] Same film as Devil’s Partner (1922)?

Synopsis: [Motion Picture News Booking Guide, October 1923, 5:18] A story of “two young lovers in primitive Canadian village, whose happiness is ever threatened by the plots of a smuggler known as ‘The Devil’s Partner’, who holds the girl’s father in his power. Happiness comes to the young couple when the man meets his death.”

Drama: Northwoods.

Survival status: Print exists.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Listing updated: 3 May 2014.

References: Website-AFI.