The Bandbox is a 1919 American silent mystery crime film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Doris Kenyon, Walter McEwen 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 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
Preservation With no holdings located in archives, The Bandbox is considered a lost film.
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.
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