Dangerous Innocence

Dangerous Innocence was a 1925 American silent romantic comedydrama film written by Lewis Milestone and James O. Spearing based upon the novel Anns an Idiot by Pamela Wynne. Directed by William A. Seiter for Universal Pictures, the film starred Laura La Plante and Eugene OBrien. The films status is currently unknown, any copies of this film exist, and it is now considered lost.

The New York Times writes that the subject of shipboard romances are invariably appealing, especially when the heroine has youth and beauty and the hero is a British Major clad in a faultlessly cut uniform, offering that the film begins well and slackens at the end only because the heroine is just a little bit too credulous, even for a girl who is much in love. They offer that viewers are apt to think of the Rudyard Kipling poem An Unknown Goddess, because La Plantes character of Ann is younger than she appears and Eugene OBriens character of Major Anthony Seymour initially takes only a paternal interest in someone he believes a child. When he realizes her age his intentions turn affectionate, but become complicated when he learns that Ann is the daughter of an old sweetheart. They praise director William A. Seiter, writing that he shows originality and imagination in his direction of a number of scenes. They also share that Laura La Plante is quite effective as Ann, and that Eugene OBrien acts the role of Seymour with sincerity and restraint. They conclude that the film is a photoplay which can be enjoyed because of the appealing love story and the pains taken by the producers to give an idea of the background, both aboard ship and in India.

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