A Pair of Silk Stockings


60m 1918

Film Details

Release Date
Jul 20, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Select Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Select Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play A Pair of Silk Stockings by Cyril Harcourt (New York, 20 Oct 1914).

Technical Specs

Duration
60m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

Synopsis

Sam and Molly Thornhill, a young English couple, are quite happy together until they quarrel about the make of car they should buy. To make Molly jealous, Sam buys expensive clothing for another woman, placing the clothes where Molly will find them, and she subsequently divorces him. Discouraged and unhappy, Sam visits the country home of some friends who are staging an amateur play, where he sees Molly, whose car has broken down nearby. Captain Jack Bagnal, Molly's old suitor, unintentionally wanders into her room, where Sam, disguised as a tramp for the play, is hiding, and the two, imagining him a burglar, tie his hands with her silk stockings and lock him in a room. To explain Jack's presence in Molly's room to his distressed fiancée, Pamela Bristowe, Jack and Molly tell the guests about the burglar, but Sam has escaped. When he reappears wearing Molly's stockings, all is explained, and Sam and Molly call their neighborhood vicar to remarry them.

Film Details

Release Date
Jul 20, 1918
Premiere Information
not available
Production Company
Select Pictures Corp.
Distribution Company
Select Pictures Corp.
Country
United States
Screenplay Information
Based on the play A Pair of Silk Stockings by Cyril Harcourt (New York, 20 Oct 1914).

Technical Specs

Duration
60m
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Film Length
5 reels

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Notes

For information on other adaptations of Cyril Harcourt's play, please consult the entry for the 1933 Universal film They Just Had to Get Married, directed by Edward Ludwig and starring ZaSu Pitts and Roland Young (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1931-30).