Green Eyes (1918 film)
1918 film by Roy William Neill
Green Eyes is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Roy William Neill and written by Ella Stuart Carson, John Lynch, and R. Cecil Smith. The film stars Dorothy Dalton, Jack Holt, Emory Johnson, Doris May, Robert McKim, and Clyde Benson. The film was released on August 11, 1918, by Paramount Pictures. It is not known whether the film currently survives.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, hardly had Pearson Hunter returned to the south with his young bride Shirley than he flew into a jealous rage because his wife knew one of the men in the welcoming party. Later, when the two lost their way while on a hunting trip, he vented an unreasonable rage upon her.
Margery Gibson, fiancé of his brother Morgan, felt the pangs of the green-eyed monster whenever Morgan showed his sister-in-law the slightest courtesy. She confided her suspicions to Pearson. In the meantime Morgan, resenting a slur upon his brother's wife by Alexander Chapman, fell him with a blow.
A mulatto who hated Chapman was lurking nearby and choked the prostrate man to death.
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