Life Without Soul

Life Without Soul 1915 is a horror film, directed by Joseph W. Smiley and written by Jesse J. Goldburg. This film is an adaptation of Mary Shelleys Gothic novel Frankenstein. 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 Mary Shelleys novel.

This fulllength film broken into five parts, was produced by the Ocean Film Corporation and featured Englishborn actor Percy Darrell Standing wearing little to no makeup 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.

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