
John Douglas, a high-society playboy, is a cynic concerning the women of his social set, and has a pictured ideal of the girl of his dreams. Wising to avoid the upcoming social season, he hops a freighter bound for the Orient.

F. McGrew Willis
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Silence, in 1914, was not absence but invitation; every flicker of monochrome urged the viewer to pour private yearning into the white spaces between frames. The Quest, directed by Harry A. Pollard and scripted with brisk economy by F. McGrew Willis, understands this contract better than most melodramas of its vintag...

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Harry A. Pollard

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" Silence, in 1914, was not absence but invitation; every flicker of monochrome urged the viewer to pour private yearning into the white spaces between frames. The Quest, directed by Harry A. Pollard and scripted with brisk economy by F. McGrew Willis, understands this contract better than most melodramas of its vintage. It begins with a man who has everything—tailored midnight-blue dinner jackets, a rooftop coupe, the languid entitlement of inherited coin—yet nurses a vacuum no Charleston can f..."


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