The Auction Block


1917

Film Details

Release Date
Dec 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Rex Beach Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Goldwyn Distributing Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Auction Block by Rex Beach (New York, 1914).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
7 reels

Synopsis

Lorelei Knight lands a job as a show girl in New York through the efforts of her unscrupulous brother. Her parasitic family soon follows in order to live on her earnings. She loses her job and in desperation marries Bob Wharton, the drunken son of a millionaire, but refuses to consummate the marriage until he reforms. Lorelei meets Lilas Lynn who is planning revenge on steel mill owner Jarvis Hammon, the man responsible for her father's death. Lilas shoots Hammon and Lorelei is implicated. Her brother and his gang blackmail Lorelei's now reformed husband for the crime, but after a turn of events the gang is broken up and all ends well.

Film Details

Release Date
Dec 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Rex Beach Film Corp.
Distribution Company
Goldwyn Distributing Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the novel The Auction Block by Rex Beach (New York, 1914).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
7 reels

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Notes

The name of the production company of this film has been listed variously as Rex Beach Film Corp., Rex Beach Pictures Corp., and Rex Beach Pictures Co.