The Price of Divorce
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The Price of Divorce | |
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Directed by | Sinclair Hill |
Written by | Reginald Fogwell (novel) Leslie Howard Gordon |
Produced by | Harcourt Temple |
Starring | Miriam Seegar Wyndham Standing Frances Day Rex Maurice |
Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Stoll Pictures |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Price of Divorce is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Miriam Seegar, Wyndham Standing and Frances Day.[1] The screenplay concerns a doctor's wife who wishes to marry her lover, and so concocts a charge of adultery against her husband in order to divorce him. The film was based on a novel by Reginald Fogwell. It was made at Cricklewood Studios by Stoll Pictures.
The Price of Divorce was never released as a silent film, but was adapted for sound and released two years later as Such Is the Law (1930).
Cast
- Miriam Seegar as The Other Woman
- Wyndham Standing as The Doctor
- Frances Day as The Wife
- Rex Maurice as The Other Man
- Gibb McLaughlin as The Valet
- Johnny Ashby as The Child
- Nancy Price as The Aunt
- Frances Rose Campbell as The Nurse
- James Fenton as The Solicitor
- Charles Fancourt as The Butler
- George Butler as Counsel for the Defense
References
Bibliography
- Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.
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