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Films of Novels

290. My Little Sister. 1919. 5 reels. Scenario and direction: Kenean Buel. © William Fox (Fox Film Corp., author) 15 June 1919. LP 13836.

291. A Dark Lantern. 1920. 6 reels. Director: John S. Robertson. Scenario: Burns Mantle. © Realart Pictures Corp. 16 July 1920. LP 15367. The University of Southern California, Los Angeles holds a copy of Bums Mantle’s photoplay bound with Clara Beranger’s White Youth.

Details of these films and a list of reviews are provided in The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States. Feature Films, 1911-1920. Film Entries, ed. Patricia King Hanson and Alan Gevinson. Berkeley: U of California P, 1988. The description of A Dark Lantern shows that the story has been transposed to a post-First World War setting and major plot changes have been made. The listed review of A Dark Lantern in Variety has been reprinted in Variety Film Reviews 1907-1980. Volume 1: 1907-1920. New York: Garland, 1983.

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