The Bandbox (1919)
On an ocean liner returning to America, Alison Landis, an actress, avoids paying duty on a valuable pearl necklace by hiding it in the lining of a hat which she sends to Benjamin Staff, a playwright. The necklace is being trailed by a crook who is related to another passenger, Eleanor Searle, who also has a striped hatbox similar to the one recovered by the unsuspecting playwright. The crook bears an uncanny resemblance to Eleanor's father. The two bandboxes are inadvertently switched at the dock.
- Date of release
- 1919-11-22
- Runtime
- 1h 10m
- Genres
- Mystery
- Director
- Roy William Neill
Casting
- Doris Kenyon — Eleanor Searle
- Walter McEwen — Arbuthnot Ismay /William H. Iff
- Gretchen Hartman — Alison Landis
- Edward Keppler — Arthur Arkroyd
- Maggie Weston — Mrs. Clover
- Logan Paul — Ehraim Clover
- Lorraine Harding — Marie
- Alexander Gaden — Benjamin Staff
- William Brotherhood
- Helen Montrose
Interesting facts
The Bandbox is a 1919 American silent mystery crime film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Doris Kenyon, Walter McEwen and Gretchen Hartman. 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.
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