Courage

About Courage

Courage is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Naomi Childers, Sam De Grasse and Adolphe Menjou. It was distributed by First National Pictures.

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Courage is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Sidney Franklin and starring Naomi Childers, Sam De Grasse and Adolphe Menjou. It was distributed by First National Pictures.

The survival status of the film is unknown.

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Plot

In Scotland, a young inventor goes to visit a man who owes him some money only to find him murdered. He is arrested and imprisoned for the crime, while his wife faithfully continues to support him and perfect his invention. Eventually the real culprit is exposed and he is freed to return to her.

Cast

Naomi Childers as Jean Blackmoore

Sam De Grasse as Stephan Blackmoore

Lionel Belmore as Angus Ferguson

Adolphe Menjou as Bruce Ferguson

Lloyd Whitlock as 'Speedy' Chester

Alec B. Francis as McIntyre

Ray Howard as Stephan Blackmoore Jr

Gloria Hope as Eve Hamish

Charles Hill Mailes as Oliver Hamish

Reception

"It's simple, yet humanly strong", wrote a review in Canadian Moving Picture Digest .

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Notable quotes

“The secrets of success are courage and be careful of all the people around you because treachery always comes from relatives and .not enemies.~~ March 8, 2025”
— Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
“It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.”
— Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 11.
“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”
— Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, June 11, 1784 (1791).
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
— Eddie Rickenbacker, as quoted in Quote Unquote (1977) compiled by Lloyd Cory, p. 73.
“Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.”
— Courage in danger is half the battle.
“Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.”
— Samuel Rutherford, p. 253.

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