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Researching The Seventh Day (1922) for my blog article, I found a bit about screenings of the Barthelmess film in the late 1980s, after Northeast Historic Film (NHF) and MoMA had done a quickie translation of the Czech titles into English. When NHF screened the film in Maine, they often paired it with a Northwoods drama called The Conflict, a Universal film starring Priscilla Dean. A note in an ancient NHF newsletter says that when the film was shown, they had a translator read the intertitles to the audience. I wonder if they had musical accompaniment as well?

MoMA and Eastman have complete copies. The film has apparently never been translated.

Sadly I don't know anything about The Conflict, but there is a version of Seventh Day floating around the web with non-professional (but perfectly decent) English subs. I'm assuming these are not the ones that you mention.

I have a copy of the 1980s translated version but the Czech copy with the English crawl is a better video quality.

CONFLICT was one of the big budget (for Universal) follow ups to THE VIRGIN OF STAMBOUL, now that Priscilla Dean was a big star. I seem to remember reading that it involved striking loggers (or something like that) and its climax involved Ms. Dean in a log jam that was racing down the river. Supposedly, it was an action film highlight of that time, although I can't imagine a major star trying to undo a logjam on film without stunt work. That's the kind of work that killed my wife's great grandfather.

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Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:05 pm

CONFLICT was one of the big budget (for Universal) follow ups to THE VIRGIN OF STAMBOUL, now that Priscilla Dean was a big star. I seem to remember reading that it involved striking loggers (or something like that) and its climax involved Ms. Dean in a log jam that was racing down the river. Supposedly, it was an action film highlight of that time, although I can't imagine a major star trying to undo a logjam on film without stunt work. That's the kind of work that killed my wife's great grandfather.

The bit I read said that the Maine audiences (no strangers to logging and rivers) thrilled to Priscilla Dean's logriding stunt down a raging river. Sounds like something to see. Alas.

linquist wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:05 pm

CONFLICT was one of the big budget (for Universal) follow ups to THE VIRGIN OF STAMBOUL, now that Priscilla Dean was a big star.

And, ahem, no longer a virgin, either, I assume.

Jim

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Sat Jan 26, 2019 2:10 pm

linquist wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 25, 2019 6:05 pm

CONFLICT was one of the big budget (for Universal) follow ups to THE VIRGIN OF STAMBOUL, now that Priscilla Dean was a big star.

And, ahem, no longer a virgin, either, I assume.

Jim

Not in Stamboul.

Bob

I flipped through the AFI Feature Film catalog to get more information. Here are the key details and storyline:

THE CONFLICT (Universal-Jewel)
Universal Film Manufacturing Co. 7 Nov 1921 [c22 Oct 1921; LP17123]. Si; b&w. 35mm. 7 reels, 6,205 ft.
Pres by Carl Laemmle. Dir Stuart Paton. Seen George C. Hull. Photog Harold Janes.

Cast: Priscilla Dean ( Dorcas Remalie), Edward Connelly (John Remalie), Hector Sarno (Buck Fallon), M,artha Mattox (Miss Labo), Olah Norman (Letty Piggott), Herbert Rawlinson (Jevons), L. C. Shumway (Mark Sloane), Sam Allen (Orrin Lakin), C. E. Anderson (Ovid Jenks), Knute Erickson (Hannibal Ginger), Bill Gillis (Hasdrubel Ginger).

Melodrama. Source: Clarence Budington Kelland, Conflict (New York, cI922). Society girl Dorcas Remalie, to fulfill the dying request of her father, goes to live in the northwoods home of her Uncle John, a sinister and dictatorial lumber baron whose household is managed by the forbidding Miss Labo. While the uncle is away, Miss Labo tries to poison Dorcas, and Dorcas seeks safety with Jevons, a young man who is fighting her uncle for land rights. Learning that Jevons is in captivity and danger, Dorcas assumes his place and leads his lumbermen to a fight with Remalie's men. She is forced to dynamite a dam, thus creating a torrent that floods a dry streambed. Learning that Jevons is trapped in the flood's path, she rescues him before he reaches the falls. The uncle repents, and Jevons and Dorcas become engaged.

This sounds like a great action-packed drama. I'd dearly love to see it.