Mile a Minute Kendall


MileaMinute Kendall is a lost American silent drama film directed by William Desmond Taylor originally released in 1918. Jack Pickford plays the title role, a wealthy, rakish young man who falls for a golddigger. The beautiful but unscrupulous fortune hunter who tempts Kendall is played by Lottie Pickford, Jacks sister a contemporary review in Variety noted that the idea of a sister vamping her own brother is not exactly palatable. Louise Huff plays the good girl in the story.

Like many American films of the time, MileaMinute Kendall was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors required cuts, in Reel 2, of the second view of a letter with the words Well always be friends on the side, two near views of intoxicated young woman seated on table smoking cigarettes, flash two scenes of seminude man and woman dancing in restaurant, first view of intoxicated young woman standing against wall, two scenes of bouncing young woman on tapestry and following scene of men carrying her off on their shoulders, scene of intoxicated woman on settee, and, Reel 4, the intertitle ending That man has been her lover for years.

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