Broken Barriers (1924 film)

1924 film by Reginald Barker

Broken Barriers

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Directed by| Reginald Barker
Written by| Sada Cowan
Howard Higgin
Based on| Broken Barriers
by Meredith Nicholson
Starring| James Kirkwood
Norma Shearer
Adolphe Menjou
Cinematography| Percy Hilburn (*French)
Distributed by| Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release date

* August 3, 1924 (1924-08-03) (United States)

Running time

| 60 mins.
Country| United States
Language| Silent (English intertitles)

Broken Barriers is a 1924 American silent drama film starring James Kirkwood, Norma Shearer, and Adolphe Menjou. Directed by Reginald Barker, the film is based upon the novel of the same name by Meredith Nicholson.[1][2]

## Plot

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Grace Durland (Shearer) is a young debutante who is forced to leave college when her father goes bankrupt. While working for a living, she falls in love with Ward Trenton (Kirkwood) who is married. As she reveals her love for a married man to her family, the reaction is very negative. Ward's evil wife refuses to grant him a divorce. This changes when he is injured in a car accident.

## Cast

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* James Kirkwood as Ward Trenton
* Norma Shearer as Grace Durland
* Adolphe Menjou as Tommy Kemp
* Mae Busch as Irene Kirby
* George Fawcett as Mr. Durland
* Margaret McWade as Mrs. Durland
* Robert Agnew as Bobbie Durland
* Ruth Stonehouse as Ethel Durland
* Robert Frazer as John Moore
* Winifred Bryson as Mrs. Ward Trenton
* Vera Reynolds as Sadie Denton
* Edythe Chapman as Beulah Reynolds
* George Kuwa as Chang

## Preservation

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With no copies of Broken Barriers located in any film archives,[3] it is a lost film.

## References

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1. ^ White Munden, Kenneth, ed. (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1921-1930. University of California Press. p. 91\. ISBN 0-520-20969-9.
2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Broken Barriers at the silentera.com database
3. ^ Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: Broken Barriers

## External links

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Films directed by Reginald Barker

* The Bargain (1914)
* The Wrath of the Gods (1914)
* The Typhoon (1914)
* The Devil (1915)
* The Coward (1915)
* The Italian (1915)
* On the Night Stage (1915)
* The Aryan (1916)
* Civilization (1916)
* The Iced Bullet (1917)
* Paws of the Bear (1917)
* Sweetheart of the Doomed (1917)
* The Hell Cat (1918)
* The Turn of the Wheel (1918)
* Shackled (1918)
* Shadows (1919)
* The Rustlers (1919)
* The Women and the Puppet (1920)
* Godless Men (1920)
* The Old Nest (1921)
* The Poverty of Riches (1921)
* Hearts Aflame (1923)
* The Eternal Struggle (1923)
* Broken Barriers (1924)
* The Dixie Handicap (1924)
* The Great Divide (1925)
* When the Door Opened (1925)
* The White Desert (1925)
* The Flaming Forest (1926)
* The Frontiersman (1927)
* Body and Soul (1927)
* The Toilers (1928)
* New Orleans (1929)
* Mississippi Gambler (1929)
* The Rainbow (1929)
* The Great Divide (1929)
* The Moonstone (1934)
* Forbidden Heaven (1935)
* The Healer (1935)

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