Forbidden Hours

Forbidden Hours is a 1928 American silent film directed by Harry Beaumont as a vehicle for Mexicanborn star Ramon Novarro. It was the second of four films to pair Novarro with leading lady Rene Adore.

The film was shot in Los Angeles with a budget of 293,000. Working titles included The Sun King, His Night and The Loves of Louis. The script originally contained reworked plot elements from Man in the Iron Mask but these elements were eventually discarded and the film took on a more Prussian design scheme reminiscent of the earlier Novarro success, The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg. Plot elements were allegedly adapted from the reign of Louis XIV of France. The Palm Beach Post suggested that Marie of Romania had inspired the character of the Queen Mother, played by Dorothy Cumming.News sources reported that Jacqueline Gadsden, Marcelle Corday and a Shirley OHara were also in the cast. Sven Hugo Borg may have also appeared in the film. ........

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