A Heart in Pawn
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Directed byWilliam Worthington
Written byFrances Guihan (scenario)
Thomas J. Geraghty (scenario)
Starring
CinematographyDal Clawson
Production
company
Distributed byRobertson-Cole
Release date
  • March 20, 1919 (1919-03-20) (USA)
Running time
50 min.
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

A Heart in Pawn is a 1919 American silent[1] drama film directed by William Worthington. Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation produced the film and Worthington played the lead role along with Vola Vale and his wife Tsuru Aoki.[2]

The film included sequences filmed at the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.[3]

Cast

Sessue Hayakawa and child actor

Preservation

With no prints of A Heart in Pawn located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.[4]

References

  1. ^ Gevinson, Alan (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911–1960. University of California Press. p. 1180. ISBN 978-0-520-20964-0.
  2. ^ Miyao, Daisuke (28 March 2007). Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom. Duke University Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-8223-3969-4.
  3. ^ "A Heart in Pawn". afi.com. Retrieved March 21, 2024.
  4. ^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: A Heart in Pawn". Library of Congress. Retrieved March 21, 2024.

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