After Business Hours is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Elaine Hammerstein, Lou Tellegen, and Phyllis Haver.[1][2]
| After Business Hours | |
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_-_1.jpg) Still with Hammerstein and Tellegen | |
| Directed by | Malcolm St. Clair |
| Written by | Walter Anthony Douglas Z. Doty |
| Based on | "Everything Money Can Buy" by Ethel Watts Mumford |
| Starring | Elaine Hammerstein Lou Tellegen Phyllis Haver |
| Cinematography | Dewey Wrigley |
| Edited by | Errol Taggart |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 56 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot edit
As described in a film magazine review,[3] John King enters married life with the plan of allowing his wife June no money except a few dollars a week. She gambles, loses, and is ashamed to ask her husband for enough to pay her losses. In an effort to repay her losses, she goes into gambling more heavily until her debts increase to a large sum. She gives her pearls as security. Her chauffeur blackmails her for money. To supply him with money, she takes a pin, which her friend Sylvia had dropped at her home, to a pawnbroker, forging Sylvia's signature. The pawnbroker, who had been turned down for membership in John's club, is ambitious to become a member. To force his way into the club, he threatens to disclose the forgery, causing the arrest of June. John fights him and obtains the pin. Returning home, his wife tells him the truth about the pin. He forgives her, taking the blame himself.
Cast edit
- Elaine Hammerstein as June King
- Lou Tellegen as John King
- Phyllis Haver as Sylvia Vane
- John Patrick as Richard Downing
- Lillian Langdon as Mrs. Wentworth
- William Scott as James Hendricks
- Lee Moran as Jerry Stanton
Preservation edit
A nitrate master of After Business Hours that is missing one of its five reels is in the collections of Library and Archives Canada.[4]
References edit
- ^ Munden p. 8
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: After Business Hours at silentera.com
- ^ "New Pictures: Faint Perfume", Exhibitors Herald, 22 (5), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 58, July 25, 1925, retrieved July 1, 2022
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "After Business Hours". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
Bibliography edit
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.
External links edit
- After Business Hours at IMDb
- Synopsis at AllMovie
- Lobby card at www.gettyimages.com
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