I Want My Man

I Want My Man
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Directed by	Lambert Hillyer
Screenplay by	Joseph F. Poland Earle Snell Earl Hudson
Based on	The Interpreter's House by Maxwell Struthers Burt
Starring	Doris Kenyon Milton Sills Phyllis Haver May Allison Kate Bruce Paul Nicholson
Cinematography	James Van Trees
Production company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	First National Pictures
Release date	March 22, 1925 (1925-03-22)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

I Want My Man is a 1925 American drama film directed by Lambert Hillyer and written by Joseph F. Poland, Earle Snell, and Earl Hudson. It is based on the 1924 novel The Interpreter's House by Maxwell Struthers Burt. The film stars Doris Kenyon, Milton Sills, Phyllis Haver, May Allison, Kate Bruce, and Paul Nicholson. The film was released on March 22, 1925, by First National Pictures.^[1][2][3]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[4] Gulian Eyre, a victim of World War I, is deserted by his nurse-wife just as he is to recover his sight. She goes to New York to fight for him against Lael Satori, the girl to whom he was engaged. Vida becomes companion to his mother. Lael insists on becoming engaged again to Gulian for his money and social position. Gulian’s brother, Philip, having involved hopelessly the fortune of Eyre & Co., brokers, commits suicide and Gulian is forced into the business world against his inclinations, shorn of his fortune. Lael breaks her engagement and he soon marries Vida, his mother’s companion. His fingers, made sensitive through eight years of blindness, recognize her as the nurse he married in France.

Cast

• Doris Kenyon as Vida
• Milton Sills as Gulian Eyre
• Phyllis Haver as Drusilla
• May Allison as Lael
• Kate Bruce as Mrs. Eyre
• Paul Nicholson as Philip
• Louis Stern as Mr. Eyre
• Teresa Maxwell-Conover as Mrs. Sartori
• Charles Lane as French Doctor
• George Howard as American Doctor

Preservation

With no prints of I Want My Man located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[5]

References

1. "I Want My Man (1925) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
2. Janiss Garza. "I Want My Man (1925) - Lambert Hillyer". AllMovie. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
3. "I Want My Man". Catalog.afi.com. Retrieved March 25, 2019.
4. "New Pictures: I Want My Man", Exhibitors Herald, 20 (13): 53, March 21, 1925, retrieved December 19, 2021
5. The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: I Want My Man

External links

• I Want My Man at IMDb
• Lobby card at gettyimages.com