"Pioneer victim of 'midlife crisis,' Captain Conrad Warrener, age 37, returns home to England from his Great War service in India with the sense that the world has gone irrevocably stale and he himself grown irretrievably old. Conrad runs through any number of futile schemes to recapture his lost innocence: gathering together childhood pals, wandering through the scenes of his youth, trysting with lost loves. As a sly variant on early modernism's post-World War I malaise, Conrad in Quest of His Youth has a rare subject for any silent film, doubly surprising in one produced this early, and with a comic perception comparable in its era to Lois Weber's Too Wise Wives (1921; shown at PFA in last year's Library of Congress series). While the resolution is conventional and disappointing, this forgotten film is a skilled work by director William C. deMille, Cecil B.'s older and subtler brother." Scott Simmon