The Bandbox

1919 film
  • November 22, 1919 (1919-11-22)
Running time
60 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Bandbox is a 1919 American silent mystery crime film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Doris Kenyon, Walter McEwen and Gretchen Hartman.[1] It is based on the 1912 novel of the same title by Louis Joseph Vance. Location shooting took place in Central Park and on Lake Mohegan in New York State.

Plot

A pearl necklace is smuggled through customs without paying duty after arriving in America from an ocean liner and a gang of criminals hot on the trail of them.

Cast

  • Doris Kenyon as Eleanor Searle
  • Walter McEwen as Arbuthnot Ismay / William H. Iff
  • Gretchen Hartman as Alison Landis
  • Edward Keppler as Arthur Arkroyd
  • Maggie Weston as Mrs. Clover
  • Logan Paul as Ehraim Clover
  • Lorraine Harding as Marie
  • Alexander Gaden as Benjamin Staff

References

  1. ^ Connelly p. 319

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

  • The Bandbox at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • v
  • t
  • e
Films directed by Roy William Neill


Stub icon

This article related to an American film of the 1910s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e