The Price of Divorce
1928 film
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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.
Directed bySinclair Hill
Written byReginald Fogwell (novel)
Leslie Howard Gordon
Leslie Howard Gordon
Produced byHarcourt Temple
StarringMiriam Seegar
Wyndham Standing
Frances Day
Rex Maurice
Wyndham Standing
Frances Day
Rex Maurice
| 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 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
