The Breaking Point (1924 film)

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Directed byHerbert Brenon
Screenplay byEdfrid A. Bingham
Julie Herne
Based onThe Breaking Point
1922 novel
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Breaking Point
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Directed byHerbert Brenon
Screenplay byEdfrid A. Bingham
Julie Herne
Based onThe Breaking Point
1922 novel
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Produced byJesse L. Lasky
Adolph Zukor
StarringNita Naldi
Patsy Ruth Miller
George Fawcett
Matt Moore
John Merkyl
Theodore von Eltz
Edythe Chapman
CinematographyJames Wong Howe
Production
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Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • May 4, 1924 (1924-05-04)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Breaking Point is a 1924 American silent mystery film directed by Herbert Brenon and written by Edfrid A. Bingham and Julie Herne. The film, based on the 1922 novel of the same name by Mary Roberts Rinehart, stars Nita Naldi, Patsy Ruth Miller, George Fawcett, Matt Moore, John Merkyl, Theodore von Eltz, and Edythe Chapman.[1] The film was released on May 4, 1924, by Paramount Pictures.[2]

As described in a film magazine review,[3] believing that he has killed the husband of Beverly Carlysle, an actress with whom he is infatuated, Judson Clark flees from the darkness of a ranch house in a western town into a snowstorm, is taken ill, and loses his memory. As Richard Livingstone, physician, he succeeds in New York City and becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. Ten years later while at a theater show, he is recognized from the stage by Beverly, who had thought her husband's killer had perished in the snow. He is taken to face justice back in Wyoming. There the real culprit confesses to the killing of Beverly's spouse. Judson finds happiness with Elizabeth.

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