The Two Edged Sword

{{short description|1916 silent film by George D. Baker}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | director = George D. Baker | producer = | screenplay = Lillian Case Russell<br>Eugene V. Webster | starring = Edith Storey | cinematography = Joseph Shelderfer | editing = | studio = | distributor = | released = {{Film date|1916|03|20|USA}} | runtime = 50 minutes | language = Silent (with English intertitles) }}

'''''The Two Edged Sword''''' is a 1916 silent Vitagraph drama directed by George D. Baker. The film was written by Eugene V. Brewster and Lillian Case Russell, and it starred Edith Storey and Evart Overton.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/52956050/?terms=%22the+two+edged+sword%22+%22edith+storey%22|title=10 May 1916, Page 1 - The Daily Republican at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref>

== Plot == A bored married woman (Josephine Earle) tired of her workaholic novelist husband (Jed Brooks) embarks on a trip with her friend and meets a handsome farmer she begins a fling with. The farmer (Logan Paul) falls head over heels, but the woman doesn't take it seriously. When her husband pays a surprise visit to the farm, the farmer realizes he's been had, and after the husband beats him in a fight, he commits suicide. His enraged sister (Edith Storey) vows vengeance.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/79852741/?terms=%22the+two+edged+sword%22+%22edith+storey%22|title=14 Apr 1916, Page 9 - Asheville Citizen-Times at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1qgbAQAAMAAJ&q=%22the+two+edged+sword%22+edith+storey&pg=PA91|title=The Moving Picture World|date=1916|publisher=World Photographic Publishing Company|language=en}}</ref>

== Cast ==

* Edith Storey as Mary Brooks * Evart Overton as Jed Brooks * Josephine Earl as Dorothy Allen * Robert Gaillard as Gordon Allen * Logan Paul as Farmer Brooks

== Production == The film was shot in the fall of 1915.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/49341611/?terms=%22the+two+edged+sword%22+%22edith+storey%22|title=1 Nov 1915, Page 5 - The Scranton Republican at Newspapers.com|website=Newspapers.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-30}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{IMDb title|0159059}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Two Edged Sword, The}} Category:American silent drama films Category:1916 films Category:Vitagraph Studios films Category:1916 American films Category:1916 English-language films Category:English-language drama films