{{Short description|1916 film by Frank Lloyd}} {{For|the painting by James Ensor|The Intrigue (painting)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Intrigue | image = The Intrigue 2.jpg | caption = | director = Frank Lloyd | producer = Pallas | writer = Julia Crawford Ivers (scenario) | cinematography = James Van Trees | editing = | distributor = Paramount Pictures | released = {{Film date|1916|10|09}} | runtime = 50 minutes (5 reels) | country = United States | language = Silent film (English intertitles) }} '''''The Intrigue''''' is a surviving<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1949/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Intrigue'']</ref> 1916 silent film drama produced by Pallas Pictures and released through Paramount Pictures. Frank Lloyd directed the film which was written by Julia Crawford Ivers and photographed by her son James Van Trees. The star is young Lenore Ulric and a young, then-unknown King Vidor makes one of his earliest appearances in a film as an actor. The movie is also one of the earliest surviving films of Vidor's wife Florence. The film is extant at the Library of Congress along with several early Lloyd directed films from 1915/16.<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/I/Intrigue1916.html ''The Intrigue'' at silentera.com]</ref><ref>''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1911-20'' by The American Film Institute, c.1988</ref><ref>''Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute and the United Artists Collection at the Library of Congress'' c.1978 by The American Film Institute</ref>
thumb|The Intrigue (1916)
==Cast== *Lenore Ulric - Countess Sonia Varnli *Cecil Van Auker - Guy Longstreet *Howard Davies - Baron Rogniat *Florence Vidor - Pseudo Countess Sonia *Paul Weigel - Attache to the Baron *Herbert Standing - The Emperor
''unbilled'' *Dustin Farnum *Winifred Kingston *King Vidor
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==External links== {{Commons category}} *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006865/ ''The Intrigue'' at IMDb.com] *[http://www.allmovie.com/movie/intrigue-v96667 ''The Intrigue''; allmovie.com synopsis]
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