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The Servant in the House
(1920) United States of America
B&W : [?] Eight or Nine? reels
Directed by Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Hersholt [Manson, the servant], Jack Curtis [Robert Smith], Claire Anderson [Mary Smith], Clara Horton [Mary Smith, her daughter], Edward Peil (Sr.) [William Smythe (Bill Smith)], Harvey Clark [Bishop of Lancashire], Zenaide Williams [Martha, his sister], Jack Gilbert (John Gilbert) [Percival], Mrs. George Hernandez (Anna Dodge) [the housemaid], Walter Hampden
Triangle Film Corporation production; distributed by Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated [FBO]. / Produced by H.O. Davis. Scenario by Lanier Bartlett, from the play The Servant in the House by Charles Ryan Kennedy. Cinematography by Elgin Lessley. / © 1 March 1920 by H.O. Davis [LP14942]. Premiered 20 July 1920 at the Strand Theatre in Washington, D.C. Released July 1920. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / The production was shot in 1918. The film was acquired circa October-November 1920 by the Walgreene Film Corporation who arranged to have the film rereleased in the USA through The Federated Film Exchange of America, Incorporated, in February 1921. The directorship was erroniously credited in some contemporary reviews to Hugh Ryan Conway.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3936.
Survival status: Print exists.
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Listing updated: 31 March 2010.
References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3936; AFI-F2 n. F2.4910; Limbacher-Feature p. 217; Spehr-American p. 273; Tarbox-Lost pp. 195, 252; Weaver-Twenty p. 142 : Website-AFI.
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