The Next Corner

The Next Corner
Australian daybill film poster
Directed by	Sam Wood
Written by	Monte Katterjohn (scenario)
Based on	The Next Corner by Kate Jordan
Starring	Dorothy Mackaill Lon Chaney Conway Tearle Louise Dresser
Cinematography	Alfred Gilks
Production company	Famous Players-Lasky
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	February 18, 1924 (1924-02-18)
Running time	70 mins.
Country	United States
Language	Silent English intertitles

The Next Corner was a 1924 American silent romantic melodrama directed by Sam Wood. The film starred Dorothy Mackaill and Lon Chaney. Based on the romance novel of the same name by Kate Jordan, the film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The Next Corner is presumed lost.

Throughout the years, the film has been cited as a Chaney picture but, according to the American Film Institute Catalog, his character has little screen time. In fact, of all Chaney's feature films of the 1920s, this picture seems to have less of him on screen than any other feature he made. The leading character is portrayed by Dorothy Mackaill, then an up-and-coming young star. This film was Chaney's only Paramount film of the 1920s, the last having been Treasure Island, and was one of the last films he appeared in as a freelance artist before signing a multiple picture deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The novel was refilmed in sound in 1931 at RKO as Transgression starring Kay Francis, Nance O'Neil with Ricardo Cortez returning to the same role.

Cast

• Conway Tearle - Robert Maury
• Lon Chaney - Juan Serafin
• Dorothy Mackaill - Elsie Maury
• Ricardo Cortez - Don Arturo
• Louise Dresser - Nina Race
• Remea Radzina - Countess Longueval
• Dorothy Cumming - Paula Vrain
• Bertha Feducha - Julie, Elsie's Maid
• Bernard Siegel - The Stranger

External links

• The Next Corner at IMDb
• The Next Corner at AllMovie
• Australian daybill lobby poster
• more accessible version of lobby poster