Her Final Reckoning

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Her Final Reckoning | image = | alt = | caption = | director = Émile Chautard | producer = Adolph Zukor | screenplay = Charles E. Whittaker | based_on = ''Le Prince Zilah'' by Jules Claretie | starring = Pauline Frederick John Miltern Robert Cain Warren Cook Joseph W. Smiley James Laffey | music = | cinematography = Jacques Bizeul (fr) | editing = | studio = Famous Players–Lasky Corporation | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1918|6|23}} | runtime = 50 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Her Final Reckoning''''' is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by Émile Chautard. The film stars Pauline Frederick, John Miltern, Robert Cain, Warren Cook, Joseph W. Smiley, and James Laffey. ''Her Final Reckoning'' was adapted for the screen by Charles E. Whittaker based on the play ''Le Prince Zilah'' by Jules Claretie. The play was also adapted for film in Italy in the same year under the title ''Il Principe Zilah''. That adaptation was directed by Ugo De Simone.<ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/17111-HER-FINAL-RECKONING |title=AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Her Final Reckoning'' |work=afi.com |access-date=May 13, 2026}}</ref> The film was released on June 23, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.<ref name="deGroat">{{Citation |title=The Pauline Frederick Website: ''Her Final Reckoning (1918)'' |last=de Groat |first=Greta |date=2005-09-16 |url=https://web.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/PF/reviews/hfr.htm |publisher=stanford.edu |access-date=May 13, 2026}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/94860/Her-Final-Reckoning/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109023709/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/94860/Her-Final-Reckoning/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 January 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|publisher=Baseline & All Movie Guide|author=Hal Erickson|title=Her-Final-Reckoning - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes - NYTimes.com|author-link=Hal Erickson (author)|date=2015|accessdate=9 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498086/her-final-reckoning|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109024812/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/498086/Her-Final-Reckoning/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 9, 2015|title=Her Final Reckoning (1918) - Overview - TCM.com|work=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=9 January 2015}}</ref>

==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''Her Final Reckoning'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=29 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=July 6, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald07exhi}}</ref> Marsa, daughter of a Russian nobleman whose wealth she inherits, meets and falls in love with Prince Zilah in Paris. Between them rises the shadow of a secret, the nature of which is revealed, with Count Menko hurrying to Paris upon learning of Marsa's engagement to the Prince. The Count orders her to meet him in the garden. She turns her dogs loose on him and he is badly injured and disappears for a time. The Count sends a packet of love letters to the Prince on the eve of the marriage. Marsa becomes ill and loses her mind. A friend of Prince runs down the Count and kills him in a duel. The Prince and Marsa are reconciled.

==Cast== *Pauline Frederick as Marsa *John Miltern as Prince Zilah *Robert Cain as Count Menko *Warren Cook as Count Varhely *Joseph W. Smiley as Doctor Forg *James Laffey as Doctor Charcot *Karl Dane as Prince Tcheretoff *Florence Beresford as Marquis de Nati *Louis Reinhard as Marsa's Butler *Edith Ellwood as Marsa's Maid

==Reception== Like many American films of the time, ''Her Final Reckoning'' was subject to restrictions and cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors issued an Adults Only permit and cut, in Reel 2, the intertitle "At midnight this key will bring me your presence and you shall have your letters back, if —".<ref>{{cite journal |title=Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=7 |issue=2 |page=31 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=July 6, 1918 |url=https://archive.org/stream/exhibitorsherald07exhi#page/n92/mode/1up}}</ref>

==Preservation== ''Her Final Reckoning'' is currently presumed lost.<ref name=''LOC''>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-05 |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Her Final Reckoning'' |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6058/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012445/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6058/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2026-05-13 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref><ref name="deGroat"/> In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.<ref name="Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) |publisher=National Film Preservation Board |date=2021-02-04 |access-date=May 13, 2026}}</ref><ref name="afi"/>

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== External links == * {{IMDb title|0009162|Her Final Reckoning}} {{Émile Chautard}}

Category:1918 films Category:1918 English-language films Category:1918 drama films Category:Paramount Pictures films Category:Films directed by Emile Chautard Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:1918 lost films Category:English-language drama films Category:1918 American films Category:Lost American silent drama films