The Nth Commandment (1923)

The Nth Commandment (1923)

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. 1923-03-18 United States of America 80 Min. PG-13
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Overview

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.”

Cast

Colleen Moore is Sarah Juke
Sarah Juke
James Morrison is Harry Smith
Harry Smith
Eddie Phillips is Jimmie Fitzgibbons
Jimmie Fitzgibbons
Charlotte Merriam is Angine Sprunt
Angine Sprunt
George Cooper is Max Plute
Max Plute