This classic Olive Thompson classic silent has been restored by Joseph Harvat with the funding from Kickstarter. I was the many ones who contributed to the project. Whether this will be out for all classic silent film fans is a question mark. The Restoration was excellent. Clean digital printed. It was tinted and Sepia toned too. The print that was used came from the Netherlands. Eye Film Museum. The translations of the titles weren't conveying, so new intertitles had to be recreated, This was released under Lewis Selznick. This was Olive Thompson star vehicle 1919. As playing the role of Flotsam, she is convincing as a naive innocent young girl who live on the beach who read fairy tale books in hope that a prince will come. Her Father, who runs a lighthouse, played by John Smiley, does a good portrayal as a lighthouse owner who was a retired captain of a ship. He has a dreadful secret. Edward Ellis plays his rough acting assistant, who also has a secret that more dreadful than. He also is trying to get Olive to marry him, Ellis. John keeps telling Olive that when as a dead child swept up the shore, that's when he named her Flotsam. Now you got your wealthy Characters in a yacht near the lighthouse. Marie Cloverdale , plays the owner of the Yacht, whose husband mysteriously left her. Gordon Huntley, plays her nephew, Elmer. A friend and possibly a love interest, Louise Prussing, plays Clarice Stapleton. While on a row boat, and accident happens to Marie and her friend ,played by Cyril Chadwick, Flotsam rescues them and take them back to the yacht. This is when Olive and Huntley meet for the first time and slowly fall for each other, while Louise gets jealous throughout the film telling that Olive is just a waif. On the day that the ones on the Yacht decide to visit olive and her father, that's when John Smiley starts seeing Huntley Familair based on John's secret that olive is not aware of. Ellis starts seeing Huntley as familiar also. The dreadful secret. Later on, Huntley Proposes to Olive. This is when Ellis gets angry and tries to kill Huntley, but, breaks it up. Marie offers adoption of John's daughter to give her a better life. Then when olive is not around he reveals to Marie and Huntley what he, John did to Huntley father and ask never to let Olive know about it. In a later twist, it is revealed whom cause the murder of Huntley's father because it wasn't John. Accidentally, Louise reveals the secret to olive, thinking Olive already knew. Olive decides to go back to her Father for support, because she can't believe he was guilty. The real perpetrator get his come up ins when the spit of the murdered man shows up. As I said, nice melodrama. A rare Olive Thompson silent classic worth the watch. 09/ 14/21.
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