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The Nth Commandment (1923)

Directed by Frank Borzage

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.”

Length 80 minutes

Actors

Colleen Moore | James Morrison | Eddie Phillips | Charlotte Merriam | George Cooper