The Safety Curtain
| The Safety Curtain | |
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| Directed by | Sidney Franklin |
| Written by | Sidney Franklin Paul West |
| Based on | |
| Produced by | Norma Talmadge Joseph M. Schenck |
| Cinematography | Albert Moses Ed Weynard |
Production company | Norma Talmadge Film Corporation |
| Distributed by | Select Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
The Safety Curtain is a 1918 American silent melodrama film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Norma Talmadge. Talmadge and her husband Joe Schenck produced the film and distributed through Select Pictures.[1][2]
Cast
- Norma Talmadge as Puck
- Eugene O'Brien as Captain Merryon
- Anders Randolf as Vulcan (credited as Anders Randolph)
- Gladden James as Sylvester
- Lillian Hall as Ballet Girl
Preservation status
This film is preserved at EYE Institut, aka Filmmuseum in the Netherlands and at UCLA Film and Television Archive.[3][4]
References
- ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: The Safety Curtain at silentera.com
- ↑ "The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Safety Curtain". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- ↑ "The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Safety Curtain". Library of Congress. January 5, 2017. Archived from the original on April 13, 2021. Retrieved August 24, 2026.
- ↑ The Safety Curtain; The Greta De Groat site The Norma Talmadge Website
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Safety Curtain.
- The Safety Curtain at IMDb
- Lantern slide held by George Eastman Museum
Categories:
- 1918 films
- 1918 drama films
- 1918 American films
- 1918 English-language films
- 1910s melodrama films
- American black-and-white films
- American silent feature films
- English-language drama films
- Films based on short fiction
- Films based on works by Ethel M. Dell
- Films directed by Sidney Franklin
- Films produced by Joseph M. Schenck
- Selznick Pictures films
- American silent drama films
- Surviving American silent films
- 1910s drama film stubs
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