Without Limit

{{short description|1921 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2020}} {{infobox film | name = Without Limit | image = Without Limit (1921) - Ad 1.jpg | caption = Ad for film with Anna Q. Nilsson and Robert Schable | director = George D. Baker | studio = Metro Pictures | writer = George D. Baker | based_on = {{based on|''The Temple of Dusk''|Calvin Johnston}} | starring = Anna Q. Nilsson<br>Robert Frazer | music = | cinematography = Andre Barlatier | editing = | distributor = Metro Pictures | released = {{Film date|1921|3|20}} | runtime = 7 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Without Limit''''' is a 1921 American silent drama film produced and distributed by Metro Pictures. It was directed by George D. Baker and stars Anna Q. Nilsson.<ref>''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30'' published by The American Film Institute, c.1971</ref> The film is based on the story ''The Temple of Dusk'' by Calvin Johnston that was published in ''The Saturday Evening Post''.<ref name="FilmDaily">{{cite journal |title=Without Limit: Would Have a Much Better Chance in Five Reels |journal=Film Daily |volume=15 |issue=48 |page=19 |publisher=Wyd's Films and Film Folks, Inc. |location=New York City |date=February 20, 1921 |url=https://archive.org/details/filmdailyvolume11516newy |accessdate=March 13, 2014}}</ref>

A surviving print is held at the British Film Institute (BFI) National Film and Television Archive.<ref name="LOC SG">{{Cite web|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.362/default.html|title=Without Limit|date=1921|website=lcweb2.loc.gov|others=Baker, George D. -- director|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref>

==Plot== Based upon a summary in a film publication,<ref name="FilmDaily"/> a minister's son, David Marlowe (Frazer), gets drunk and marries chorus girl Ember (Nilsson), and then forges a check and flees. Ember then decides to leave the straight and narrow path and charges some gowns to Bunny Fish (Schable), the man her husband had robbed. When she hears that her husband has returned with money to repay his debt, she changes her mind and returns the clothing. Later, when she believes David has killed Bunny Fish because of his attention towards her, but it turns out that Fish is only slightly hurt. Palter (Lane), the owner of the establishment where David first got intoxicated, has become so interested in David's regeneration that he remembers him in his will, and just before he dies, he also signs over some bonds to Ember after learning that she has remained faithful to her husband.

==Cast== *Anna Q. Nilsson as Ember Edwards *Robert Frazer as David Marlowe *Frank Currier as The Reverend Marlowe *Kate Blancke as Mrs. Marlowe *Charles Lane as Clement Palter *Robert Schable as Bunny Fish *Thomas W. Ross as Charley *Nellie Anderson as The Landlady

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==External links== {{commons category}} *{{IMDb title|0012857}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160325162946/http://www.geh.org/ar/strip64/htmlsrc2/m198701190049_ful.html#topofimage Lantern slide promotional] (Wayback Machine)

{{DEFAULTSORT:Without Limit}} Category:1921 films Category:American silent feature films Category:Metro Pictures films Category:Films directed by George D. Baker Category:American silent drama films Category:1921 drama films Category:American black-and-white films Category:1921 American films Category:1921 English-language films Category:English-language drama films