''The Bandbox'' is a 1919 American silent

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directed by

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and starring

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and

Gretchen Hartman Gretchen Hartman (born Grace Barrett; August 28, 1897 – January 27, 1979) was an American stage and film actress. She is credited on 67 movies, nearly all silent. Early life Hartman was born Grace Barrett in Chicago, the daughter of actress ...

.Connelly p. 319 It is based on the 1912 novel of the same title by

Louis Joseph Vance Louis Joseph Vance (September 19, 1879 – December 16, 1933) was an American novelist, screenwriter and film producer. He created the popular character Michael Lanyard, a criminal-turned-detective known as the Lone Wolf. Early life Louis J ...

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took place in

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and on Lake Mohegan in

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Plot

A pearl necklace is smuggled through

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without paying

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after arriving in America from an ocean liner and a gang of criminals hot on the trail of them.

Cast

as Eleanor Searle *

as Arbuthnot Ismay / William H. Iff *

as Alison Landis *

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as Arthur Arkroyd * Maggie Weston as Mrs. Clover *

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as Ehraim Clover * Lorraine Harding as Marie *

Alexander Gaden Alexander Gaden (February 20, 1872, Newfoundland - January 14, 1958 Cook County, Chicago) was a silent film actor. He starred in 32 films between 1912 and 1923. He was often seen in early efforts by Adolph Zukor's fledgling Famous Players Film C ...

as Benjamin Staff

References

Bibliography

* Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.

External links

* 1919 films 1919 mystery films American silent feature films Films directed by Roy William Neill American black-and-white films Films distributed by W. W. Hodkinson Corporation Pathé Exchange films Films based on American novels 1910s English-language films 1910s American films Silent American mystery films English-language mystery films {{1910s-US-film-stub