The Unknown Quantity (1919 film)

The Unknown Quantity

Still from the American drama film The Unknown Quantity (1919) with Corinne Griffith with a sewing machine
Directed by Thomas R. Mills
Written by G. Marion Burton (scenario)
Based on The Unknown Quantity, a short story
by O. Henry
Starring Corinne Griffith
Cinematography Tom Malloy
Distributed by Vitagraph Company of America
Release dates
  • April 14, 1919 (1919-04-14) (United States)
Country United States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

The Unknown Quantity was a 1919 American silent directed by Thomas R. Mills produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It is based on the 1910 short story of the same name by O. Henry.[1][2]

Plot

A profiteer's son falls in love with one of his father's victims and secures the acquittal of her brother who was falsely accused of murder.

Cast

References

  1. Alan Globe, ed., The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film (Bowker-Saur) 1999, 999.
  2. The Unknown Quantity at the American Film Institure: Catalog of Feature Films
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