Kreutzer Sonata
β 2.7 Β· 1915 Β· 50m Β· Drama Β· Romance
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).
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