Temptation

About Temptation

Temptation is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Edward LeSaint and starring Bryant Washburn, Eva Novak, and June Elvidge. The film was released by the CBC Film Sales Corporation, which would later become Columbia Pictures.

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Cast

Bryant Washburn as Jack Baldwin

Eva Novak as Marjorie Baldwin

June Elvidge as Mrs. Martin

Phillips Smalley as Frederick Arnold

Vernon Steele as John Hope

Preservation and status

The film survives in its complete form in a 16mm copy held at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin.

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Notable quotes

“I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people: they go commonly together.”
— Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, Section II. Memb. 3. Subsect, XIII.
“Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentaries, Genesis, III.
“Honest bread is very well—it's the butter that makes the temptation.”
— Douglas Jerrold, The Catspaw.
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”
— John Bunyan, p. 577.
“The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.”
— François Fénelon, p. 577.
“Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.”
— Thomas à Kempis, p. 578.

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