| Life Without Soul | |
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| Directed by | Joseph W. Smiley |
| Written by | Jesse J. Goldburg |
| Produced by | John I. Dudley |
| Starring | Percy Standing George De Carlton |
| Distributed by | Ocean Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent film Englishintertitles |
Life Without Soul (1915) is a losthorror film, directed byJoseph W. Smiley and written byJesse J. Goldburg. This film is an adaptation ofMary Shelley's 1818Gothic novelFrankenstein; 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 alost film and the second film version ofFrankenstein.[2] The first version was theEdison Manufacturing Company's 12-minuteshort filmFrankenstein (1910), written and directed by J. Searle Dawley.
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.[3]The film was reissued in 1916 by theRaver Film Corporation with added scientific documentary footage detailing the reproduction methods of fish.[4]
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