Altars of Desire is a silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Christy Cabanne

Christy Cabanne

Christy Cabanne , born William Christy Cabanne, was an American film director, screenwriter and silent film actor. Christy Cabanne was, along with Sam Newfield and William Beaudine, one of the most prolific directors in the history of American film.-Biography:Cabanne graduated from the U.S...

 and starring silent movie star Mae Murray

Mae Murray

Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen"....

. A print may survive in the Turner/MGM vaults however silentera.com lists this film as being lost

Lost film

A lost film is a feature film or short film that is no longer known to exist in studio archives, private collections or public archives such as the Library of Congress, where at least one copy of all American films are deposited and catalogued for copyright reasons...

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Plot

Claire (Murray) is sent to Paris by her father (Edeson) to acquire polish. A fortune-hunter (Beranger) stalks her, but so does good guy David Elrod (Tearle).

Cast

• Mae Murray
  Mae Murray
  Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen"....
  
   - Claire Sutherland
• Conway Tearle
  Conway Tearle
  Conway Tearle was an Anglo-American stage actor who went on to perform in silent and early sound films.-Early life:...
  
   - David Elrod
• Robert Edeson
  Robert Edeson
  Robert Edeson was an American movie and stage actor of the silent era. Edeson got his first boost in movies in 1914 when he starred in the Cecil B...
  
   - John Sutherland
• Maude George
  Maude George
  Maude George was an American actress of the silent era. She is remembered primarily as a regular of director Eric von Stroheim's stock company of actors appearing in four of von Stroheim's lengthy films in the 1920s....
  
   - Kitty Pryor
• George Beranger
  George Beranger
  Georges Augustus Alexandre Roger de L'ile de Beranger , born George Augustus Beringer, was the seventh child of Adam Beringer and Caroline Mondientz. He was an Australian actor and film director. He played Shakespearean roles at the age of sixteen and left Australia in 1912 and began film work in...
  
  - Count André D'Orville

External links

• Altars of Desire; allrovi.com/synopsis