The Nth Commandment
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“She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks.”
A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”
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Cast
8 people
Colleen Moore
Sarah Juke
Also in
Ella Cinders
The Scarlet Letter
James Morrison
Harry Smith
Also in
A Vitagraph Romance
A Cure for Pokeritis
Frank Borzage
Frances Marion
Chester A. Lyons
Eddie Phillips
Jimmie Fitzgibbons
Known for
Lonesome
Charlotte Merriam
Angine Sprunt
Known for
Night Nurse
George Cooper
Max Plute
Also in
Think Fast, Mr. Moto
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Frank Borzage Director · Frances Marion Writer Chester A. Lyons Cinematographer
United States release March 18, 1923 · Produced in United States
Production
Cosmopolitan Productions
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · March 18, 1923
Theatrical
United Kingdom
June 2, 1924
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