The Cost


1920

Film Details

Release Date
Apr 11, 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount-Artcraft Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Cost by David Graham Phillips (Indianapolis, 1904).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6 reels

Synopsis

Against her father's wishes, Pauline Gardner marries John Dumont, a young philanderer, on his promise that he will reform. Dumont breaks his word, and one night when Pauline sees him with another woman, she decides to separate from him and returns home to her parents who live out West. Soon after, Dumont becomes the head of a wool trust that is attempting to gain control of the Western state in which Hampton Scarborough, Pauline's former suitor, is running for governor, but Dumont is unsuccessful. Time passes and Pauline learns that Dumont has been having an affair with her best friend, Leonora Fanshaw, whose husband, for revenge, engineers Dumont's ruin on Wall Street. Pauline bails Dumont out, but the strain kills him. After his death she returns to Scarborough and they marry.

Film Details

Release Date
Apr 11, 1920
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.
Distribution Company
Famous Players-Lasky Corp.; Paramount-Artcraft Pictures
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Cost by David Graham Phillips (Indianapolis, 1904).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
6 reels

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