The Nth Commandment

Mar 18, 1923

1h 20m

★ 5.0

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.

Overview

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.”

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Cosmopolitan Productions

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Cast

Sarah Juke

Colleen Moore

Harry Smith

James Morrison

Jimmie Fitzgibbons

Eddie Phillips

Angine Sprunt

Charlotte Merriam

Max Plute

George Cooper

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5.2

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7.2

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7.0

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0.0

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8.0

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7.6

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6.0

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0.0

True As Steel

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6.9

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0.0

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3.0

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0.0

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No overview available.

6.0

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0.0

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No overview available.

7.1

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6.2

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The Nth Commandment

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