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The Solitary Sin
Alternate Title:
T.N.T. (The Naked Truth)
Director:
Frederick Sullivan
(Dir)
Release Date:
Jun 1919
Duration (in reels):
6
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Cast:
Jack Mulhall
(Bob Meredith, as an adult)
Helene Chadwick
(Mary McMillan)
Gordon Griffith
(Bob Meredith, age 14)
Pauline Curley
(Dorothy Morton)
Anne Schaefer
(Mrs. Meredith)
Irene Aldwyn
(Isabel Meredith)
Leo Pierson
(John Chamberlain)
Charles Spere
(Edward Ralston)
Edward Jobson
(Mr. Ralston)
Kate Lester
(Mrs. Ralston)
Berry Mills
(Edward Wing)
Edward Cecil
(Mr. Meredith)
Emmett King
(Dr. Brown)
Milla Davenport
Dorothea Wolbert
Summary:
At age fourteen, Bob Meredith is told by his father about sex and taken to tour several hospital wards filled with men being treated for sexual diseases. John Chamberlain and Edward Ralston, who both live in Bob's neighborhood, are not told about sex by their parents. Later, the three boys are engaged to girls they have known all their lives. When John learns that he has syphilis, he visits the celebrated Dr. Stone, who says that he can be cured in three to five years. Unwilling to wait, John goes to a quack, who bleeds him for a large fee and declares him cured. John prepares to marry, but Dr. Stone arrives at the wedding and stops it. Edward, who had evil companions in his youth, has lost his mind from masturbation. After he commits a crime during a sudden rage, an examining committee declares him insane. Bob, who attributes his well-being to his father's teaching at the right time, weds his sweetheart.
Production Company:
New Art Film Co.
Public Welfare Pictures
Distribution Company:
Solitary Sin Corp.
State Rights
Director:
Frederick Sullivan
(Dir)
Producer:
George D. Watters
(Pres)
George D. Watters
(Supv)
Samuel Cummins
(Prod)
Writer:
George D. Watters
(Scen)
George D. Watters
(Story)
Photography:
King D. Gray
(Cam)
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Copyright Claimant
Copyright Date
Copyright Number
Public Welfare Pictures
25/8/1924
dd/mm/yyyy
LP20573
Physical Properties:
b&w:
Si:
Genre:
Drama
Sub-Genre:
Social
Subjects (Major):
Engagements
Masturbation
Physicians
Quacks and quackery
Sex education
Syphilis
Venereal disease
Subjects (Minor):
Hospitals
Insanity
Weddings
Note:
The film was shot at the former Balboa studios in Long Beach, CA. The producers of the film asked for the assistance of state rights buyers and exhibitors in selecting a title.
The Solitary Sin
received more votes than all other titles combined. The production company, the New Art Film Co., should not be confused with a company of the same name which produced films starring Dorothy Gish in 1919 and 1920.
The Solitary Sin
was re-released under the titles
T.N.T. (The Naked Truth)
and
The Naked Truth
in 1924, at which time it was copyrighted by Public Welfare Pictures. Credits for producer Samuel Cummins and actor Emmett King were added based on information found on the re-released film.
Bibliographic Sources:
Date
Page
MPN
12 Jul 19
p. 591.
MPW
5 Apr 19
p. 75.
MPW
5 Jul 19
p. 111, 113
Wid's
29 Jun 19
p. 23.
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