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Melodrama

The White Shadow

Year
1924
Director
Graham Cutts
Length
42 minNFPF surviving three-reel transfer Version sources ↓

Twin sisters associated with opposing temperaments enter a melodrama of family division, nightlife, and mistaken identity.

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What to expect

The surviving material is notable as an early Graham Cutts production on which Alfred Hitchcock worked, but its fragmentary state should not be mistaken for a complete Hitchcock film.

How to ease in

Only part of the film survives. Watch the available reels for visual contrasts and doubling, then stop where the evidence stops rather than inventing the missing whole.

Heads-up

A quick, non-exhaustive note The film is incomplete; surviving material includes sexual double standards, nightlife, family conflict, and period moral stereotypes.
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A fragment can reveal craft without revealing the completed argument. I enjoy the visual doubling while keeping a firm boundary between what survives and what a later reputation tempts us to imagine.

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Credits & versions

Credits
Screenplay
Alfred Hitchcock

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Wikidata 82-minute listing 82 min 82 minutes reproduces the single duration stated by the source. The listing does not identify a cut, score, territory, frame rate, source element, or restoration. It is not the duration of the surviving three-reel NFPF presentation. Source: Wikidata — The White Shadow Checked 2026-08-22

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