The Price of a Party
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Directed byCharles Giblyn
Written byCharles F. Roebuck (scenario)
Based on"The Price of the Party"
by William Briggs MacHarg
Produced byHoward Estabrook
StarringHope Hampton
Harrison Ford
Arthur Edmund Carewe
Mary Astor
CinematographyJohn F. Seitz
Production
company
Howard Estabrook Productions
Distributed byAssociated Exhibitors
Release date
  • December 23, 1924 (1924-12-23)
Running time
60 mins.
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Price of a Party is a 1924 American silent melodrama film produced by Howard Estabrook and distributed by Associated Exhibitors. The film is based on a short story of the same name by William Briggs MacHarg published in Cosmopolitan magazine,[1] with the film's scenario written by Charles F. Roebuck. It was directed by Charles Giblyn and stars Hope Hampton and Harrison Ford.[2] The film was shot in Tec Art Studios.[3]

In 2014, it was reported that an incomplete copy of the film was found in Navarre, Spain.[4]

Cast

Preservation

A print of The Price of a Party has now been located and is now not considered a lost film.[5]

References

  1. ^ "The Cosmopolitan. v.70 1921 Jan-Jun". HathiTrust. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: The Price of a Party at silentera.com
  3. ^ "Moving Picture World Vol. 68, No. 1. p. 818". archive.org. June 28, 1924. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  4. ^ Doria, Javier (May 28, 2014). "La Filmoteca de Navarra recupera tres películas únicas del cine mudo de 1924". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved December 21, 2019.
  5. ^ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) National Film Preservation Board (January 2021) - (Current as of 02.04.2021)" (PDF). LOC.GOV. February 4, 2021. Some recent "finds" now removed from this list:...

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