The Divorce Game


1917

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Jun 25, 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
World Film Corp.; Peerless
Distribution Company
World Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Mlle Fifi by Leo Ditrichstein (New York, 1 Feb 1899).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

Synopsis

The insistence of their tradesmen for payment on past due bills compels Paul, the Viscount de Sallure, and his young American wife Florence to invent imaginative measures in order to tap the principal amount of Florence's dowry. According to her father's will, only the interest of Florence's vast inheritance is available to her unless she is separated from her husband. Concocting a scheme by which the couple would divorce, acquire the money and then remarry, Paul pretends to have an affair with Mlle. Fifi. When Florence begins to suspect that her husband's affair is more than a ruse, however, it begins to look as if their divorce scheme will become a reality until Florence's wealthy mother, Mrs. Safford, intervenes and settles the couple's debts as well as their suspicions.

Film Details

Genre
Adaptation
Release Date
Jun 25, 1917
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
World Film Corp.; Peerless
Distribution Company
World Film Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play Mlle Fifi by Leo Ditrichstein (New York, 1 Feb 1899).

Technical Specs

Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

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Notes

According to Wid's, Philip Hatkin was the cameraman on this film. This was not confirmed elsewhere and is probably a mistake. Hatkin was the camerman for World's The Perils of Divorce which was released June 12, 1917.