The Nth Commandment
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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.”
Status: Released
Released Date: 1923-03-18
Runtime: 80 mins
Director: Frank Borzage
Writer: Frances Marion
Spoken language: No Language
Genres: Drama
Original title: The Nth Commandment
Production Companies: Cosmopolitan Productions
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
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