- Source: Life Without Soul
Life Without Soul (1915) is a lost horror film, directed by Joseph W. Smiley and written by Jesse J. Goldburg. This film is an adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The film is about a doctor who creates a soulless man. In the end, it turns out that a young man has dreamed the events of the film after falling asleep reading Shelley's novel.
This version is considered a lost film and the second film version of Frankenstein. The first version was the Edison Manufacturing Company's 12-minute short film Frankenstein (1910), written and directed by J. Searle Dawley.
Production
This full-length film (broken into five parts), was produced by the Ocean Film Corporation and featured English-born actor Percy Darrell Standing wearing little to no make-up as the 'Brute Man'. The story is about the Brute Man killing the sister of his creator (Dr. William Frawley) on her wedding night. Frawley pursues his creation across Europe finally killing him by shooting him. Frawley then dies of exhaustion.
A framing device reveals that the story is being read from a book.
The film was reissued in 1916 by the Raver Film Corporation with added scientific documentary footage detailing the reproduction methods of fish.
Cast
Percy Standing as The Creation (aka Brute Man)
George De Carlton as Frankenstein's Father
Lucy Cotton as Elizabeth Lavenza
Pauline Curley as Claudia Frawley
Jack Hopkins as Henry Claridge
David McCauley as Victor Frawley, as a child
Violet De Biccari as Elizabeth, as a child
William A. Cohill as Dr. William Frawley
See also
List of lost films
References
External links
Life without Soul at AllMovie
Life without Soul at IMDb
Life Without Soul at the TCM Movie Database
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- Percy Standing
- Pauline Curley
- Joseph W. Smiley
- Beautiful Soul
- BTS
- Aaron Kwok
- Incognito (grup musik)
- Harry R. Lewis
- Malam Gelap Jiwa
- Mary J. Blige
- Life Without Soul
- Excellence Without a Soul
- Reincarnation
- Mary J. Blige
- Immortality
- Soul
- Soul to Soul (album)
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- Soul II Soul
- Lucinda Williams
