The Nth Commandment (1923)
She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks.
80 min
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.”
- Release date
- March 18, 1923
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Colleen Moore as Sarah Juke
- James Morrison as Harry Smith
- Eddie Phillips as Jimmie Fitzgibbons
- Charlotte Merriam as Angine Sprunt
- George Cooper as Max Plute
- Mary Marguerite as Little Girl
Crew
- Frank Borzage · Director
- Fannie Hurst · Writer
- Frances Marion · Writer
- Frank Borzage · Producer
- Frances Marion · Producer
- Chester A. Lyons · Cinematographer