The Talk of the Town (1918)

movie

Country: USA
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1918-09-28
Director: Allen Holubar
Writers: Allen Holubar , Harold Vickers
Language: None | English
Stars: Dorothy Phillips , George Fawcett , Clarissa Selwynne , William Stowell , Lon Chaney , Gloria Joy , Una Fleming , Charles Hill Mailes , Zasu Pitts , Katherine Griffith
Runtime: 60 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Talk of the Town , The Talk of the Town (United Kingdom) , La flamme et le papillon (France, French Republic) , The Talk of the Town (United States of America)
Plot: Genevra Frinch, the pretty daughter of Major French, is brought up in a strict environment. Her nature revolts. She wants freedom. A book, entitled "How to Attract the Opposite Sex," falls in her hands, she reads it and absorbs some of its teachings. Lawrence Tabor, who is counted as one of the few friends of her father, visits them. Parrot-like, she practices some of the book's theories on him, and he becomes fascinated with her. After several secret meetings, Genevra asks Lawrence if he will take her as his wife. He consents, and they get married. Shortly afterward she tells her husband she married him to save herself from her prison of a home, and that she is going to be free and act as she pleases. She meets Jack Lanchome, an idler, whose only occupation is to fascinate women, and demands of her husband to be introduced to him. Lawrence refuses, stating that he will not insult her by introducing her to such a man. Her desire to meet him now becomes the stronger. She invites him to the house. After several meetings Lanchome arranges a little supper in a café of bad reputation. After dinner he locks the door and assaults her. Lawrence gets there just in time to save her from the villain's hands. Genevra begs her husband to take her home, promising that in the future she will disobey him no more. Next day Lanchome appears in Lawrence's office. The latter hands him a check, but he refuses to accept it, saying that that was the first good act he has ever done in his life, and that he will accept no pay for it. Further, that he has enlisted in the army to fight in France, intending to keep to the straight path. Genevra is ignorant of the frame-up, but well cured and happy with her husband.Motion Picture News, September 28, 1918
IMDB:tt0009681