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==Plot==
==Plot==
As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''One Year to Live'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=20 |issue=13 |pages=52 |date=21 March 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald20unse/page/51/mode/1up |access-date=19 December 2021}}</ref> in Paris, Elise is maid to the great dancer, Lolette. Tom Kendrick comes to bid Lolette farewell, and is intrigued when he watches Elise’s dancing when she believes herself alone. He falls in love with her, and deserts Lolette for her at the ball given in his theatre by Brunei, getting Elise in bad with Lolette. He declares his love, promises to write every day of his trip back to the United States and his return, after he is discharged from the army. Dr. Lapierre, who attends Elise’s bed-ridden sister, Marthe, loves Elise, bribes the janitor to destroy Kendrick’s letters and tells Elise she has but a year to live. Seemingly neglected by Kendrick, and with no money to leave to care for Marthe, Elise promises to become Brunei’s mistress when he has made a great star out of her. Kendrick returns on the night Brunei claims his reward. Lapierre confesses his deception, Marthe recovers, and Elise refuses to fulfill her bargain. She convinces Kendrick of her innocence and they are reconciled.
As described in a film magazine review,<ref>{{Citation |title=New Pictures: ''One Year to Live'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=20 |issue=13 |pages=52 |date=21 March 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald20unse/page/52/mode/1up |access-date=19 December 2021}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> in Paris, Elise is maid to the great dancer, Lolette. Tom Kendrick comes to bid Lolette farewell, and is intrigued when he watches Elise's dancing when she believes herself alone. He falls in love with her, and deserts Lolette for her at the ball given in his theatre by Brunel, getting Elise in bad with Lolette. He declares his love, promises to write every day of his trip back to the United States and his return, after he is discharged from the army. Dr. Lapierre, who attends Elise's bed-ridden sister, Marthe, loves Elise, bribes the janitor to destroy Kendrick's letters and tells Elise she has but a year to live. Seemingly neglected by Kendrick, and with no money to leave to care for Marthe, Elise promises to become Brunel's mistress when he has made a great star out of her. Kendrick returns on the night Brunel claims his reward. Lapierre confesses his deception, Marthe recovers, and Elise refuses to fulfill her bargain. She convinces Kendrick of her innocence and they are reconciled.


==Cast==
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*[[Chester Conklin]] as Froquin
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==Preservation==
With no prints of ''One Year to Live'' located in any film archives, it is considered a [[lost film]].<ref>[https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8027/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''One Year to Live'']</ref>


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==External links==
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Revision as of 02:56, 28 November 2023

One Year to Live
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Directed byIrving Cummings
Screenplay byJ.G. Hawks
Robert E. Hopkins
StarringAileen Pringle
Dorothy Mackaill
Sam De Grasse
Rosemary Theby
Leo White
Joseph Kilgour
CinematographyArthur L. Todd
Edited byCharles J. Hunt
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • March 15, 1925 (1925-03-15)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

One Year to Live is a 1925 American drama film directed by Irving Cummings and written by J.G. Hawks and Robert E. Hopkins. The film stars Aileen Pringle, Dorothy Mackaill, Sam De Grasse, Rosemary Theby, Leo White and Joseph Kilgour. The film was released on March 15, 1925, by First National Pictures.[1][2][3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,[4] in Paris, Elise is maid to the great dancer, Lolette. Tom Kendrick comes to bid Lolette farewell, and is intrigued when he watches Elise's dancing when she believes herself alone. He falls in love with her, and deserts Lolette for her at the ball given in his theatre by Brunel, getting Elise in bad with Lolette. He declares his love, promises to write every day of his trip back to the United States and his return, after he is discharged from the army. Dr. Lapierre, who attends Elise's bed-ridden sister, Marthe, loves Elise, bribes the janitor to destroy Kendrick's letters and tells Elise she has but a year to live. Seemingly neglected by Kendrick, and with no money to leave to care for Marthe, Elise promises to become Brunel's mistress when he has made a great star out of her. Kendrick returns on the night Brunel claims his reward. Lapierre confesses his deception, Marthe recovers, and Elise refuses to fulfill her bargain. She convinces Kendrick of her innocence and they are reconciled.

Cast

Preservation

With no prints of One Year to Live located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.[5]

References

  1. ^ "One Year To Live (1925) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  2. ^ Janiss Garza. "One Year to Live (1925) - Irving Cummings". AllMovie. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  3. ^ "One Year to Live". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved December 19, 2018.
  4. ^ "New Pictures: One Year to Live", Exhibitors Herald, 20 (13): 52, March 21, 1925, retrieved December 19, 2021 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  5. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: One Year to Live
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