Name: Beverly of Graustark
Genre: Drama
Duration: 57 min
Rating: 4.7
Cast: Linda Arvidson, Clara T. Bracy, Charles Perley

In this short feature, Linda Arvidson is on the way to visit her friend, the princess of Graustark. She is captured by Charles Perley, a goat hunter with exquisite manners. He is actually the disguised prince of a neighboring country who has been driven out of power by his evil brother. By the usual mistakes that occur in this this sort of Ruritanian fiction, he mistakes her for the Princess and sends her on her way. Soon, however, he and she are involved in various goings-on in Graustark and his own country.

It's based on the novel by George Barr McCutcheon, who rose to prominence with his novel GRAUSTARK. He was soon called upon to write more Prisoner-of-Zenda-style romances, even though he preferred his stage work and efforts like BREWSTER'S MILLIONS. It was produced by Biograph during their collapse as a film-production company, and it shows. Even though the acting and photography are excellent, it was saddled with numerous titles to explain what was going on. This reduced it to an "illustrated text" movie, in which the titles tell you what you are about to see, reducing the actual movie to largely an afterthought.

Miss Arvidson was actually Mrs. D.W. Griffith. They had separated about six years earlier, although they did not divorce until the 1930s. She had left Biograph in 1912 for what should have been a better contract, but the company collapsed within a year. She made one more movie after this and retired from the screen.

The story was remade in 1926, with Marion Davies in the lead. I assume it is a better movie.

The drama genre is a broad category that features stories portraying human experiences, emotions, conflicts, and relationships in a realistic and emotionally impactful way. Dramas delve into the complexities of human life, often exploring themes of love, loss, morality, societal issues, personal growth, with the aim to evoke an emotional response from the audience by presenting relatable and thought-provoking stories.

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It is 1900. Grenfell Lorry is the son of wealthy American parents. On a train in New England Lorry meets a mysterious young woman, Miss Guggenslocker, and finds himself irresistibly attracted. Soon he is following her across the ocean to Graustark, a small, remote mid-European kingdom threatened from within and without by power-hungry schemers who will stop at nothing to become its next rulers. Here, he discovers Miss Guggenslocker is actually the princess of Graustark, and the object of many of these schemes. When the two meet again, they both fall in love. Unfortunately, impoverished Graustark owes money to a nearby country it can not repay, and the princess must marry its prince in order to repay the debt. Otherwise, Graustark will lose half its land and its people will become serfs under their cruel new rulers. Surrounded by spies, the news of Grenfell Lorry's love for the princess becomes known and he is challenged to duels, framed for murder and banished from the kingdom. Fortunately, Lorry does not know the meaning of fear, was a fencing champion in college, and is willing to dare anything for love.

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