Movie: The Nth Commandment

Top 5 Billed Cast

Colleen Moore
Colleen Moore

Sarah Juke

James Morrison
James Morrison

Harry Smith

Eddie Phillips
Eddie Phillips

Jimmie Fitzgibbons

Charlotte Merriam
Charlotte Merriam

Angine Sprunt

George Cooper
George Cooper

Max Plute

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    A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”

  • Release Date

    1923-03-18

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    She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks.

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