Outcast is a 1922 silent film

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 directed by Chester Withey

Chester Withey

Chester Withey was an American silent film actor, director and screenwriter. He participated in the production in total of some 100 films....

. The film starred Elsie Ferguson

Elsie Ferguson

Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...

 (in her next to last silent) and David Powell

David Powell

David Powell was a Scottish born stage and later film actor of the silent era. In his twenties Powell appeared in stage companies of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry and Johnston Forbes-Robertson...

. William Powell

William Powell

William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...

 has a small supporting part in this which was his third film. The movie is based on the play of the same name by Hubert Henry Davies

Hubert Henry Davies

Hubert Henry Davies was a leading British playwright of the early twentieth century, following in the tradition of Arthur Wing Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones, but influenced profoundly by Thomas William Robertson...

 and had been performed on Broadway in 1914 with Ferguson in the lead. The story was refilmed as another silent in 1928 by First National studios. The film is presumably 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...

 today. However one source claims a print may exist in Milan Italy at the Cineteca Italiana.

Cast

• Elsie Ferguson
  Elsie Ferguson
  Elsie Louise Ferguson was an American stage and film actress.-Early life:Born in New York City, Elsie Ferguson was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Benson Ferguson, a successful attorney...
  
   - Miriam
• David Powell
  David Powell
  David Powell was a Scottish born stage and later film actor of the silent era. In his twenties Powell appeared in stage companies of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Ellen Terry and Johnston Forbes-Robertson...
  
   - Geoffrey Sherwood
• William David - Tony Hewlitt
• Mary MacLaren
  Mary MacLaren
  Mary MacLaren was an American film actress. She appeared in 136 films between 1916 and 1949.Born Mary MacDonald in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received her education at Greensburgh , Pennsylvania...
  
   - Valentine Moreland
• Charles Wellesley
  Charles Wellesley
  Charles Wellesley was an Irish-born American actor of the silent era. He appeared in 88 films between 1913 and 1928.He was born in Dublin and died in Amityville, New York.- Selected filmography :...
  
   - John Moreland
• Teddy Sampson - Nellie Essex
• William Powell
  William Powell
  William Horatio Powell was an American actor.A major star at MGM, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the popular Thin Man series in which Powell and Loy played Nick and Nora Charles...
  
  - DeValle

External links

• Outcast at imdb.com
• Outcast 1914 Broadway Production ibdb.com
• Elsie Ferguson and David Powell in a scene from the film Univ. of Washington, Sayre collection
• Elsie Ferguson and William Powell in scene(ebay)