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The Love Special
Director: Frank Urson (Dir)
Release Date:   17 Apr 1921
Duration (in feet):   4,855
Duration (in reels):   5
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Cast:   Wallace Reid (Jim Glover)  
    Agnes Ayres (Laura Gage)  
    Theodore Roberts (President Gage)  
    Lloyd Whitlock (Allen Harrison, a director)  
    Sylvia Ashton (Mrs. Whitney)  
    William Gaden (William Bucks)  
    Clarence Burton (Morris Blood)  
    Snitz Edwards (Zeka Logan)  
    Ernest Butterworth ("Gloomy")  
    Zelma Maja (Stenographer)  
Summary: Jim Glover, civil engineer for a western railroad, is ordered to act as guide to the company president, who is on an inspection trip with his sister, his daughter, and Harrison, one of the directors. Jim helps President Gage get an option on property of Zeka Logan, but Harrison intends to acquire the property himself for use as a bribe to win the hand of Laura. Laura overhears the plot and with Jim's help plunges through a blizzard to reach her father. She ends up in Jim's arms. 
Production Company: Famous Players-Lasky Corp.  
Distribution Company: Paramount Pictures  
Director: Frank Urson (Dir)
Writer: Eugene B. Lewis (Scen)
Photography: Charles Edgar Schoenbaum (Dir of photog)
Country: United States
Language: English
Source Text: Based on the novel The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank Hamilton Spearman (New York, 1903).
Authors: Frank Hamilton Spearman
Copyright Claimant Copyright Date Copyright Number
Famous Players-Lasky Corp. 16/4/1921 dd/mm/yyyy LP16397
Physical Properties: b&w:
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Genre: Melodrama
 
Subjects (Major): Blizzards
  Engineers--Civil
  Land rights
  Railroad tycoons
  Railroads
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