A Fool's Awakening

{{short description|1924 film directed by Harold M. Shaw}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = A Fool's Awakening | image = File:A Fool's Awakening (1924 film) poster.jpg | caption = | director = Harold M. Shaw | producer = | writer = Tom J. Hopkins | based_on = {{basedon|''The Tale of Triona''|William J. Locke}} | starring = Mary Alden <br> Lionel Belmore <br> Enid Bennett | music = | editing = | cinematography = Allen G. Siegler | studio = Metro Pictures | distributor = Metro Pictures | released = {{Film date|1924|01|28}} | runtime = 60 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''A Fool's Awakening''''' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Harold M. Shaw and starring Mary Alden, Lionel Belmore, and Enid Bennett.<ref>Munden p. 260</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine review,<ref name="ETR">{{cite journal |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Box Office Reviews: ''A Fool's Awakening'' |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |volume=15 |issue=15 |pages=26 |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |date=1 March 1924 |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibi00newy/page/n41/mode/1up |accessdate=19 September 2022}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> John Briggs, who was seen service during World War I during the Bolshevik Revolution, returns to England. Discouraged by his failure to be a success in literature, he uses as source material for his stories the tales in a diary he found on a dead Russian soldier. Published using the name Alexis Triona, it becomes a hit. He weds Olivia Gale, and subsequently reveals his deception to her. Repulsed by Olivia after he meets her after driving his automobile, he deliberately swings the vehicle over a cliff. She goes to his aid. He recovers and they are reconciled.

==Cast== {{Cast listing| * Mary Alden as Myra * Lionel Belmore as Herbert Lorington * Enid Bennett as Olivia Gale * Edward Connelly as Blandon * Mark Fenton as Wainwright * Harrison Ford as John Briggs * Alec B. Francis as Maj. Oliphant * Pauline French as Lady Ordwynne * D.R.O. Hatswell as Bobby Walton * Lorimer Johnston as Col. Onslow * Harry Northrup as Hargrave Mavenna * Arline Pretty as Lydia Mainwaring * Evelyn Sherman as Miss Oliphant * John St. Polis as Lt. Wedderburn }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0014918}}

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