Name: The Auction Block
Released: 1926
Cast: Charles Ray, Eleanor Boardman, Sally O'neil, Ernest Gillen, Charles Clary

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Release Date

Feb 1, 1926

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures

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

6,239ft (7 reels)

Synopsis

Lorelei Knight, the pride of Palmdale, South Carolina, wins a beauty contest and becomes the toast of New York, where she meets wealthy Bob Wharton at a charity ball. They fall in love and are married 2 days later. Bob takes her home to meet his father, who quickly disillusions her about Bob's character. Lorelei returns to Palmdale and tells no one of her marriage. Bob follows and finds work in a shoestore, quickly becoming successful and attracting every girl in town. Bernice Lane, a baby vamp and love pirate, deliberately compromises the innocent and protesting Bob by stranding him all night on a country road. As she expected, her father then attempts to make Bob marry her. Mr. Lane soon learns that Bob is already married and goes gunning for him. Lorelei makes Bernice tell her father that Bob was innocent of all wrongdoing and thereby saves Bob's life. Bob and Lorelei are reconciled.