The Power of One (film) ''The Price of Divorce'' is a 1928 British silent

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Sinclair Hill Sinclair Hill (10 June 1896 – 6 March 1945) was a British film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed nearly fifty films between 1920 and 1939. He was born as George Sinclair-Hill in London in 1894. He was awarded an OBE for his ser ...

and starring

Miriam Seegar Miriam Seegar Whelan (September 1, 1907 – January 2, 2011) was an American actress in silent film and early sound films. Early life As the Seegar sisters started acting and singing, Frank Seegar left teaching to open a hardware store in effo ...

Wyndham Standing Charles Wyndham Standing''Silent Film Necrology'', 2nd Edition by Eugene Michael Vazzana, c. 2001 page 497 (23 August 1880 – 1 February 1963) was an English film actor. Early years Standing was born in London, England and died in Los An ...

and Frances Day.BFI.org
/ref> The screenplay concerns a doctor's wife who wishes to marry her lover, and so concocts a charge of

adultery Adultery (from Latin ''adulterium'') is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds. Although the sexual activities that constitute adultery vary, as well as the social, religious, and legal ...

against her husband in order to divorce him. The film was based on a novel by

Reginald Fogwell Reginald Fogwell (23 November 1893, Dartmouth, Devon -1977) was a British film director, film producer, producer and screenwriter. Selected filmography Director * ''The Warning (1928 film), The Warning'' (1928) * ''Cross Roads (film), Cross Roads ...

. It was made at

Cricklewood Studios Cricklewood Studios, also known as the Stoll Film Studios, were British film studios located in Cricklewood, London which operated from 1920 to 1938. Run by Sir Oswald Stoll as the principal base for his newly formed Stoll Pictures, which als ...

by Stoll Pictures. ''The Price of Divorce'' was never released as a silent film, but was adapted for sound and released two years later as '' Such Is the Law'' (1930).

Cast

as The Other Woman *

as The Doctor * Frances Day as The Wife * Rex Maurice as The Other Man *

Gibb McLaughlin George McLoughlin (19 July 1879 – 30 June 1961), known professionally as Gibb McLaughlin, was an English film and stage actor. Early days McLaughlin was born in Sunderland, County Durham, England in 1879. For about 10 years he was a sales ...

as The Valet * Johnny Ashby as The Child *

Nancy Price Nancy Price, CBE (3 February 1880 – 31 March 1970), was an English actress on stage and screen, author and theatre director. Her acting career began in a repertory theatre company before progressing to the London stage, silent films, talkies a ...

as The Aunt * Frances Rose Campbell as The Nurse *

James Fenton James is a common English language surname and given name: *James (name), the typically masculine first name James * James (surname), various people with the last name James James or James City may also refer to: People * King James (disambiguat ...

as The Solicitor * Charles Fancourt as The Butler * George Butler as Counsel for the Defense

References

Bibliography

* Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

* 1928 films British silent feature films Films shot at Cricklewood Studios Stoll Pictures films 1928 drama films Films directed by Sinclair Hill British black-and-white films 1920s English-language films 1920s British films Silent British drama films {{1920s-UK-film-stub