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The Bandbox

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The Bandbox
Directed byRoy William Neill
Written byRoy Somerville
Based onThe Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance
StarringDoris Kenyon
Walter McEwen
Gretchen Hartman
CinematographyNed Van Buren
Edward Wynard
Production
company
Deitrich-Beck
Distributed byHodkinson Pictures
Pathé Exchange
Release date
  • November 22, 1919 (1919-11-22)
Running time
60 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguagesSilent
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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Connelly p. 319

Bibliography

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  • 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.
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