The Green Temptation is a lost[1] 1922 American silent melodrama film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Betty Compson.

[2][3] It was written by Julia Crawford Ivers and Monte Katterjohn based upon the short story "The Noose" by Constance Lindsay Skinner.

There she meets an old wartime colleague (Kosloff), a criminal who is conniving to steal a valuable jewel called 'The Green Temptation'.

Kosloff wants Betty to help him steal the jewel and when she balks he threatens to reveal her sordid past to her new American friends.

The Green Temptation was released posthumously following the unsolved murder of its director William Desmond Taylor on February 1, 1922.