{{short description|1916 silent film directed by Cleo Madison}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = A Soul Enslaved | image = A Soul Enslaved (1916) - 1.jpg
| caption = Film still | director = [[Cleo Madison]] | producer = [[Cleo Madison]] | screenplay = [[Adele Farrington]]<br>[[Olga Printzlau]] | starring = [[Cleo Madison]]<br>[[Tom Chatterton]]<br>[[Lule Warrenton]] | distributor = [[Universal Pictures|Universal Film Manufacturing Company]] | released = {{Film date|1916|01|24|U.S.}} | runtime = 5 [[reel#Motion picture terminology|reels]] | country = United States | language = Silent (English [[intertitle]]s) }}
'''''A Soul Enslaved''''' is a 1916 American silent [[drama film]] directed by actress-turned-director (and suffragist) [[Cleo Madison]], and written by screenwriters [[Adele Farrington]] and [[Olga Printzlau]]. Madison also stars. The [[Universal Pictures|Universal]] film is believed to be [[lost film|lost]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bCDwVacqwOcC&q=%22a+soul+enslaved%22+film&pg=PA102|title=Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema|last=Dixon|first=Wheeler W.|date=1999|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=9780231113175|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6v1LAQAAMAAJ&q=%22a+soul+enslaved%22+film&pg=RA3-PA169|title=Photoplay Magazine|date=1916|publisher=Cloud Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref>
== Plot == The film—which explores themes of hypocrisy, double standards, and gender norms—features Madison as an activist fighting for better working conditions at her factory job. Madison's character is having an affair with the factory's owner, and she later moves on and marries a man who is unaware of her past. When he discovers that she was previously a "kept woman," he leaves her, only to return after reflecting that he once seduced and abandoned a young woman who committed suicide.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cnfJtYM9JWcC&q=%22a+soul+enslaved%22+%22cleo+madison%22&pg=PA146|title=Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood|last=Cooper|first=Mark Garrett|date=2010-10-01|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=9780252090875|language=en}}</ref>
==Cast== * [[Cleo Madison]] as Jane * [[Tom Chatterton]] as Richard Newton * [[Douglas Gerrard]] as Paul Kent * [[Lule Warrenton]] as Jane's Mother * [[Patricia Palmer]] as Nellie * [[Alfred Allen (actor)|Alfred Allen]] as Ambrose * [[Irma Sorter]] as Young Jane
==Production== The film was Madison's directorial feature debut.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/93797094/?terms=%22cleo+madison%22+%22a+soul+enslaved%22|title=1 Nov 1915, Page 8 - The News-Review at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/61497398/?terms=%22cleo+madison%22+%22a+soul+enslaved%22|title=1 Mar 1916, Page 11 - The Charlotte News at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-29}}</ref> Production was delayed by nearly 10 days after Madison was struck in the eye by a fishing hook in a freak accident. The incident nearly cost her her sight in that eye.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gsN_CQAAQBAJ&q=%22a+soul+enslaved%22+%22cleo+madison%22&pg=RA1-PA24|title=On This Day in Piedmont Triad History|last=Sink|first=Alice E.|date=2013-11-12|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=9781625842176|language=en}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0007376}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Soul Enslaved}} [[Category:1916 films]] [[Category:1916 drama films]] [[Category:1916 lost films]] [[Category:1916 American films]] [[Category:American black-and-white films]] [[Category:American silent feature films]] [[Category:Lost American silent drama films]]