The Toast of Death

The Toast of Death is a 1915 silent era drama/romance motion picture released by Mutual Film Corporation starring Louise Glaum, Harry Keenan, and Herschel Mayall.

Directed by Thomas H. Ince and produced by the New York Motion Picture Company, the screenplay was written by C. Gardner Sullivan.

One of the early five-reel feature length silent movies,[1] The Toast of Death was filmed at Inceville Studio in Topanga Canyon near the Pacific Ocean.

A Los Angeles Times review of Sunday, August 15, 1915, reads: "The Toast of Death, a stirring drama of romance, intrigue and jealousy, will be the photoplay presented at the Woodley Theater for the week beginning tomorrow.

Troops of camels, elephants and horses, India dragoons and other scenes of magnificence, among which is the one depicting the famous imperial ballet, in Calcutta, are shown.

"[2] Another Times review of Tuesday, August 17, 1915, reads: "The Toast of Death, a romance of India, is a tremendously tense story, featuring one of the ablest leading women in pictures, Louise Glaum, at the Woodley Theater this week.