The Nth Commandment 101 years old

She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks.

The Nth Commandment

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.”

Credits

The Nth Commandment Cast

Name Character
Eddie Phillips He was 23, 65 years old when he died as Jimmie Fitzgibbons
James Morrison He was 31, now 70 years old as Harry Smith
Colleen Moore She was 23, 88 years old when she died as Sarah Juke
George Cooper He was 30, 122 years old when he died as Max Plute
Charlotte Merriam She was 16, 66 years old when she died as Angine Sprunt

The Nth Commandment Crew

Name Department
Frances Marion as Producer. She was 34 (84) years old when She died Production
Frances Marion as Writer. She was 34 (84) years old when She died Writing
The Nth Commandment poster
The Nth Commandment (101 years)

She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks.

  • Release day: Sunday, March 18, 1923
  • Runtime: 80 minutes