Outcast (1922 film)

Outcast
Outcast lobby card
Directed byChester "Chet" Withey
Written byJosephine Lovett (scenario)
Based onOutcast
by Hubert Henry Davies
Produced byFamous Players–Lasky
StarringElsie Ferguson
David Powell
William Powell
CinematographyErnest Haller
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • December 11, 1922 (1922-12-11)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Outcast is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Chester Withey. The film starred Elsie Ferguson (in her next to last silent) and David Powell. William Powell has a small supporting part in this which was his third film.

The film is based on the play of the same name by Hubert Henry Davies and had been performed on Broadway in 1914 with Ferguson in the lead. The story was filmed in 1916 as The World and the Woman with Jeanne Eagels, afterwards as Outcast with Ann Murdock. After Ferguson's version it was filmed as Outcast with Corinne Griffith and Edmund Lowe in a Vitaphone version in 1928, and finally was the basis of The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935) starring Bette Davis and released by Warner Brothers.