The Crucial Test

{{short description|1916 film by John Ince}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Crucial Test | image = The Crucial Test.jpg | caption = Advertisement | director = John Ince<br>Robert Thornby | producer = William A. Brady | studio = Paragon Films | writer = Frances Marion | starring = Kitty Gordon | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = World Film Corporation | released = {{film date|1916|7|3}} | runtime = 5 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }}

'''''The Crucial Test''''' is a lost<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4519/default.html|title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Crucial Test|date=|website=Library of Congress|accessdate=25 January 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321191522/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4519/default.html|archive-date=21 March 2023|url-status=dead}}</ref> 1916 American silent drama film directed by John Ince and Robert Thornby. It stars Kitty Gordon and was distributed by the World Film Corporation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Crucial Test |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/14031-THE-CRUCIALTEST |access-date=2026-01-25 |website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref>

==Cast== *Kitty Gordon as Thanya *Niles Welch as Vance Holden *J. Herbert Frank as Grand Duke Alexander Bagroff *William W. Cohill as Boris *Winifred Harris as Princess *Adolphe Menjou as Count Nicolai

== Preservation == With no holdings located in archives, ''The Crucial Test'' is considered a lost film.<ref name=":0" />

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==External links== {{commons category|The Crucial Test}} *{{IMDb title|0006558}}

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