← ← Back
Movie poster: The Nth Commandment (1923)
🎬 Movie

The Nth Commandment

1923 · 80 min Drama
5.0 / 10 · TMDB

A department store clerk decides to marry a withdrawing colleague with tuberculosis, over another dashing, ambitious suitor, leads to a life of hardship and struggle. Though The Nth Commandment survives incomplete, enough exists of director Frank Borzage’s last film while under contract with William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Pictures for scholar Hervé Dumont to declare “it the first truly Borzagian work.”

Watch online

Click to play

📋 Film Details

Year 1923
Country United States of America
Genre Drama
Director Frank Borzage
Runtime 80 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.0/10 (4 votes)

📺 Where to Watch

Checking availability...

🎬 MovieFinder's Take

Frank Borzage constructs a drama not of grand gestures, but of quiet, palpable decline and stoic endurance. The film explores the unromantic, grinding daily reality of sacrifice, where love is measured by a thermometer and bitter medicine.

What lingers after viewing is a poignant, unsentimental journey into the heart of duty, where happiness is but a fleeting shadow on a sickroom wall. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Frank Borzage

🕯️

Best Watched

In subdued lighting, with silence that lets you hear every breath.

🎭 Cast

🎬 Similar Movies

💬 Audience Reviews

Write a Review

Quick rating — tap to vote:

Or write a full review:

0/2000