Fantasy ·Drama ·Romance · United States of America · 1925 · 1h 47m

The Road to Yesterday

Director

Cast

Joseph Schildkraut as Kenneth Paulton Jetta Goudal as Malena Paulton William Boyd as Jack Moreland Vera Reynolds as Beth Tyrell Trixie Friganza as Harriet Tyrell Casson Ferguson as Adrian Thompkyns

Crew

J. Peverell Marley — Director of Photography Anne Bauchens — Editor Jeanie Macpherson — Writer Beulah Marie Dix — Story Adrian — Costume Design Clare West — Costume Design

Synopsis

Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when he was a knight and she was a gypsy headed for burning at the stake. This becomes evident when their unconscious minds travel back from a train wreck in the American plains to Elizabethan England.

Mood & Themes

train past life

Key Collaborators

Cecil B. DeMille Director J. Peverell Marley Director of Photography Anne Bauchens Editor Jeanie Macpherson Writer Beulah Marie Dix Story Adrian Costume Design Clare West Costume Design

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