The Man in the Moonlight was a 1919 silent film, a drama set in the great north, starring Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore

Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...

 and Monroe Salisbury

Monroe Salisbury

Monroe Salisbury was an American actor. He appeared on the stage for several years and then became an early movie star....

.

Story

Two strangers arrive at the wedding of Sergeant O'Farrell of the Royal Mounted Police and Rosine Delorme. O'Farrell receives an urgent message that Rosine's wayward brother Louis has escaped from prison with the notorious Rossingnol. He puts off the nuptials and leaves in search of the criminals. One of the strangers convinces Rosine to guide him to a cabin at the end of the Passage Du Mort where Louis awaits her. The cabin however is empty, the strange is actually Rossingnol. Rossingnol carries Rosine to a bed and hypnotizes her. In the meanwhile Louis, wounded, warns the police are on their way. Rossingnol has Louis take Rosine. At his signal (a gunshot) Louis and Rosine must run for the border with America. The police shoot Rossingnol and Louis and Rosine bolt. Rossingnol dies in the arms of his love, who has followed him, and hide in the bushes until they hear a shot to signal them to head for the border. After Rossingnol is shot and dies in the arms of his sweetheart who followed him to the cabin, O'Farrell joins Rosine and Louis in the United States.

Cast

• Monroe Salisbury
  Monroe Salisbury
  Monroe Salisbury was an American actor. He appeared on the stage for several years and then became an early movie star....
  
   - Rossingnol
• Colleen Moore
  Colleen Moore
  Colleen Moore was an American film actress, and one of the most fashionable stars of the silent film era.-Early life:...
  
   - Rosine Delorme
• William Stowell
  William Stowell
  William Stowell , was an American silent film actor who died in a railroad accident in the Belgian Congo in 1919....
  
   - Sergeant O'Farrell
• Alfred Allen
  Alfred Allen (actor)
  For other persons named Alfred Allen, see Alfred Allen Alfred Allen was an American silent film actor and author.He was signed in 1915 and starred in 106 films before his retirement in 1935...
  
   - Captain Hendricks
• Harry DuRoy - Ferguson
• Sydney Franklin - Pierre Delorme
• Virginia Foltz - Mother Delorme
• Arthur Jasmine
  Arthur Jasmine
  Arthur Jasmine , also known as Samson De Brier or Sampson De Brier, was an American film actor.-Biography:He was born on 4 April 1899 in the U.S.A. at St...
  
  - Louis Delorme

Background

The man in the Moonlight came between Colleen's work for Selig Polyscope and the Christie Studio. At the time she was still almost exclusively a dramatic actress and had no comic training. As was usual for her roles up to that point (and typical for motion picture roles for women in the motion picture industry at the time) she was a damsil in distress.

Footnotes

• Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing,(Print ISBN 978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN 978-0-7864-8899-5).

External links

• The Colleen Moore Project
• The Man in the Moonlight at IMDb.com
• http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/497550/The-Man-in-the-Moonlight/
• http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/M/ManInTheMoonlight1919.html
• http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/149465/The-Man-in-the-Moonlight/details