Tuesday, September 27, 2022, 7:30 p.m., Dryden Theatre
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The Second in Command (1915)
(William Bowman, US 1915, 50 min., 35mm)
Cinema’s first matinee idol went by the unlikely name of Francis X. Bushman. His muscular, sculpted frame garnered him a large female following and vaulted him to a career in over 200 films. In The Second in Command, Bushman plays Miles Anstruther, a colonel in the British Imperial Army. He has fallen madly in love with Muriel Mannering (Marguerite Snow), who has been promised to his close friend and fellow soldier Christopher Bingham (William Clifford). When both men are assigned to serve in South Africa, they must survive the battle to determine who wins the hand of Muriel.
Live piano accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli.