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Broken Barriers

Film Information:
Production: Not Available;

Premiere: Not Available;
Released: August 18, 1924;
Production/Distribution Companies: Metro Goldwyn Mayer;
Director: Reginald Barker;
Based on the novel by Meredith Nicholson; Photography: Percy Hilburn;
Film editor: unknown;
Running time: unknown(lost);
Not available on VHS or DVD;

Cast: James Kirkwood as Ward Trenton; Norma Shearer as Grace Durland; Adolphe Menjou as Tommie Kemp; Mae Busch as Irene Kirby; George Fawcett as Mr. Durland; Margaret McWade as Mrs. Durland; Robert Agnew as Bobbie Durland; Ruth Stonehouse as Ethel Durland; Robert Frazer as John Moore; Winifred Bryson as Mrs. Ward Trenton; Vera Reynolds as Sadie Denton; Edythe Chapman as Beulah Reynolds; George Kuwa as Chang;

Reviews:

Photoplay, October, 1924: "Norma Shearer reveals a steady improvement in her screen work as the girl. She will bear watching. The picture is slightly better than passible film fare."

Mordaunt Hall in the New York Times, August 4, 1924: "This production has a happy but disapointing ending which comes with such a jolt that one can hardly believe the picture is finished. There are moments of interest in the film, but the story belongs in the bewildering and quite impossible category."

Notes/Trivia:
This was the first film released by Metro Goldwyn Mayer.