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The Craving

191850 minUnited States
DramaHorror

Synopsis

A chemist who has overcome a drinking problem becomes the target of a man seeking his explosive formula. Temptation, manipulation and a disturbing visionary journey force him to confront the weakness his enemy is using against him.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Dutch.
This copy runs
56:59
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Dutch. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Francis Ford · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsFrancis FordJohn Ford

Reception and legacy

Contemporary reviewers responded differently to the moral story, but repeatedly discussed its trick effects. The surviving archival print is associated with Dutch intertitles.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

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  • Francis Ford — Photoplay Magazine; no photographer credited but Ford was then under contract to Universal Pictures; Photoplay , September 1915 (page 12) · Public domain

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