The Nth Commandment

"She thought the Nth Commandment was: If you can't be good, be careful. The greatest motion pictures are made out of the lives and loves and sorrows of plain folks."

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.”

Loading countdown...
Enemies of Women

Enemies of Women

1923

The Passionate Pilgrim

The Passionate Pilgrim

1921

To-Day

To-Day

1917

Drunken Angel

Drunken Angel

1948

Lady Jane

Lady Jane

1986

Night Life in Hollywood

Night Life in Hollywood

1922

Jim the Penman

Jim the Penman

1921

Manhattan Cocktail

Manhattan Cocktail

1928

Goodbye, Mr. Germ

Goodbye, Mr. Germ

1940

The Salamander

1916

Chicken Casey

1917

An Even Break

An Even Break

1917

Jaffery

Jaffery

1916

The Nun's Story

The Nun's Story

1959

King of the Hill

King of the Hill

1993

The Miracle Man

The Miracle Man

1919

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1957

Honkytonk Man

Honkytonk Man

1982

True As Steel

True As Steel

1924

Map of the Human Heart

Map of the Human Heart

1993