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 date	February 18, 1924 (1924-02-18)
Running time	70 mins.
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Next Corner is a 1924 American silent romantic melodrama film 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.

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

Preservation

With no copies of The Next Corner located in any film archives, it is a lost film.

External links

• The Next Corner at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie
• Australian daybill lobby poster
• Lobby poster