Pampered Youth

Pampered Youth
Directed byDavid Smith
Written byJay Pilcher
Based on
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
Produced byAlbert E. Smith
StarringCullen Landis
Alice Calhoun
Allan Forrest
CinematographyW. Steve Smith Jr.
Production
company
Vitagraph Company of America
Distributed byVitagraph Company of America
Release date
  • February 1, 1925 (1925-02-01)
Running time
6640 feet[1] (73 minutes at 24 fps)[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Pampered Youth is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by David Smith and starring Cullen Landis, Alice Calhoun, and Allan Forrest. It is an adaption of the 1918 novel The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington.[3][4] It was one of the final films produced by Vitagraph Studios before the firm was absorbed into Warner Bros.

Plot

As described in a review in a film magazine,[5] twenty-five or thirty years ago, every small town boasted of its Amberson family, whose home was the show place and whose every move made news. Major Amberson's daughter Isabel loves Eugene Morgan, but he gets himself in disgrace by performing a drunken serenade, and leaves town. Isabel marries Wilbur Minafer, a poor second choice, who makes a very passable husband. Not loving her husband, Isabel centers all of the love in her heart upon her son George, who naturally grows from a very spoiled young boy into a despicable young cad. His extravagances eventually deplete the Amberson fortune. When his father dies, George resents his mother's love for Morgan, who has returned as a prosperous automobile manufacturer. George has come to love, however, Morgan's daughter Lucy. The death of Major Amberson forces George to go to work, bringing about his regeneration. Then there is the heroic rescue of Isabel by Morgan when the home in which she lodges burns. The final tableau suggests the rehabilitation of George.

Cast

Preservation

The complete 7-reel feature is a lost film. However, a 16 mm abridged version, released in 1931 for the United Kingdom as Two to One, survives[1] and it was first included on the 1986 Criterion Laserdisc edition of The Magnificent Ambersons and subsequent Blu-ray release in 2018.[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Pampered Youth". Archived from the original on September 12, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Kodak Film Calculator". Retrieved April 10, 2025.
  3. ↑ Goble 1999, p. 901.
  4. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: Pampered Youth Archived September 12, 2021, at the Wayback Machine at silentera.com
  5. ↑ Sargent, Epes W. (February 21, 1925). "Pampered Youth; David Smith Vividly Realizes Booth Tarkinton's Prize Novel, The Magnificent Ambersons, for Vitagraph". The Moving Picture World. 72 (8). New York City: Chalmers Publishing Co.: 785–786. Retrieved September 11, 2021.
  6. ↑ Tadao (February 27, 2017). "'Pampered Youth' – The other lost 'Magnificent Ambersons'". Wellesnet. Archived from the original on April 12, 2025. Retrieved April 11, 2025.
  7. ↑ Atanasov, Dr. Svet (December 4, 2018). "The Magnificent Ambersons Blu-ray (DigiPack)". Blu-ray.com. Archived from the original on April 27, 2025. Retrieved April 11, 2025.

Bibliography

  • Goble, Alan (1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter.
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