The Price of Divorce

1928 film

The Power of One (film)

  • 1928 (1928)
CountryUnited KingdomLanguagesSilent
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

  1. ^ BFI.org[dead link]

Bibliography

  • Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

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