''The Bandbox'' is a 1919 American silent mystery

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directed by

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and starring Doris Kenyon,

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and Gretchen Hartman.Connelly p. 319 It is based on the 1912 novel of the same title by Louis Joseph Vance. Location shooting took place in Central Park and on

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in New York State.

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

* Doris Kenyon as Eleanor Searle *

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 *

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as Marie * Alexander Gaden 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 American mystery 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 mystery films {{1910s-US-film-stub