Smouldering Fires (1925) | Directed by Clarence Brown - Full Movie

A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.

Smouldering Fires is a 1925 Universal silent drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante. The movie's plot is similar to the 1933 talking picture Female, starring Ruth Chatterton.

Copies of this film are archived by UCLA and George Eastman House. In 1953, the film entered the public domain in the United States because the claimants did not renew its copyright registration in the 28th year after publication. It is available on video, and numerous prints exist in private collections.

Directed by: Clarence Brown, Charles Dorian (2nd unit)
Written by: Melville W. Brown
Screenplay by: Sada Cowan, Howard Higgin
Story by: Sada Cowan, Margaret Deland, Howard Higgin
Intertitles: Dwinelle Benthall
Produced by: Carl Laemmle
Starring: Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall, Wanda Hawley, Pauline Frederick
Cinematography: Jackson Rose
Edited by: Edward Schroeder
Production company: Universal Pictures
Release date: January 18, 1925 (USA)
Running time: 80 minutes, 7,356 feet on 8 reels
Country: United States
Language: Silent (English intertitles)