The Unafraid

{{short description|1915 film}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2021}} {{Infobox film | name = The Unafraid | image = The Unafraid - 1915 - newspaperad.jpg | caption = Newspaper advertisement. | director = Cecil B. DeMille | producer = Cecil B. DeMille | writer = Cecil B. DeMille<br>Eleanor M. Ingram | starring = House Peters and Rita Jolivet | music = | cinematography = Alvin Wyckoff | editing = Cecil B. DeMille | distributor = | released = {{film date|1915|4|1}} | runtime = 40 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Unafraid''''' is a 1915 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.<ref name="silentera">{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/U/Unafraid1915.html|title=Progressive Silent Film List: The Unafraid|access-date=July 16, 2011|work=Silent Era}}</ref> Rita Jolivet completed this film just before boarding the Lusitania on its final voyage. The film survives and is preserved in the film archive at the George Eastman Museum.<ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1247/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''The Unafraid'']</ref>

It was based on a novel by Eleanor M. Ingram.<ref>https://www.cecilbdemille.com/portfolio-item/the-unafraid/</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/U/Unafraid1915.html|title=Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List|website=www.silentera.com}}</ref>

==Cast== *Rita Jolivet as Delight Warren *House Peters as Stefan Balsic *Page Peters as Michael Balsic *William Elmer as Jack McCarty *Lawrence Peyton as Danilo Lesendra *Theodore Roberts as Dual Empire Secret Agent *Al Ernest Garcia as Joseph *Marjorie Daw as Irenya *Raymond Hatton as Russian Valet *Gertrude Kellar as Countess Novna

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==External links== {{commons category|The Unafraid (1915)}} *{{IMDb title|id=0006194|title=The Unafraid}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Unafraid, The}} Category:1915 films Category:1915 American films Category:1915 drama films Category:1915 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent drama films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language drama films Category:Films based on American novels Category:Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille Category:Surviving American silent films