The Blind Goddess (1926 film)

The Blind Goddess
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Directed by	Victor Fleming
Written by	Louis Duryea Lighton (scenario) Hope Loring (scenario) Gertrude Orr (adaptation)
Based on	The Blind Goddess by Arthur Cheney Train
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Starring	Jack Holt Ernest Torrence Esther Ralston Louise Dresser Ward Crane
Cinematography	Alfred Gilks
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	April 4, 1926 (1926-04-04)
Running time	80 min.; 8 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Blind Goddess is a 1926 American silent mystery film directed by Victor Fleming. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and released by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on the novel The Blind Goddess by Arthur Cheney Train.^[1][2]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[3] the daughter of a politician is in love with a young attorney. The father’s happiness ends with the appearance of his wife, who had deserted him, but now returns to see her daughter. The father pleads with her to go, as he has built up an ideal of her for his daughter. The wife leaves and while exiting is seen by the daughter, who does not know her. Immediately after this the father’s business partner comes in and admits to being mixed in several crooked deals in which he has implicated them both — and during a quarrel kills the father. The daughter believes the woman that she saw leaving is guilty and she is arrested. She does not reveal her identity, but tells her story to the young lawyer, who originally was the prosecuting attorney, and who, while reconstructing the murder, turns on the dictaphone, into which the father spoke before he died. The lawyer changes to the defense and wins an acquittal. Mother and daughter are reunited.

Cast

• Jack Holt as Hugh Dillon
• Esther Ralston as Moira Devens
• Ernest Torrence as 'Big Bill' Devens
• Louise Dresser as Mrs. Eileen Clayton
• Ward Crane as Tracy Redmond
• Richard Tucker as Henry Kelling
• Louis Payne as Taylor
• Charles Clary as District Attorney
• Erwin Connelly as Chief of detectives
• Charles Lane as Judge
• Vondell Darr as Young Girl (uncredited)

Preservation

With no prints of The Blind Goddess located in any film archives,^[4] it is a lost film.^[5]

References

1. Progressive Silent Film List: The Blind Goddess at silentera.com
2. The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
3. "New Pictures: The Blind Goddess". Exhibitors Herald. 24 (10). Chicago: Exhibitors Herald Co.: 92 February 20, 1926. Retrieved March 27, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
4. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Blind Goddess
5. Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files, The Blind Goddess, 1926 column

External links

• The Blind Goddess at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Stills at silenthollywood.com