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The House of Bondage is a lost[2] 1914 silent film drama directed by Pierce Kingsley and starring Lottie Pickford.[3]
The House of Bondage | |
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Directed by | Pierce Kingsley Raymond B. West |
Written by | Pierce Kingsley |
Based on | The House of Bondage by Reginald Wright Kaufmann |
Produced by | Photo Drama Motion Picture Company William Steiner |
Starring | Lottie Pickford |
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Running time | 6 reels[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | Silent..English titles |
It was adapted from the novel The House of Bondage by Reginald Wright Kauffman.[4]
In a Motion Picture Magazine interview, Pickford mentioned that she disliked the film.[5]
The Social Uplift Company filed a lawsuit against the Photo Drama Motion Picture Company, with the former claiming that the latter did not hold the motion picture rights to the original Kauffman novel. Social Uplift claimed that they had bought the film rights from Joseph Byron Totten, who had previously bought the dramatic rights. Social Uplift sought to restrain Photo Drama from screening a film based upon the novel. Judge Learned Hand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on February 10, 1914 in favor of Photo Drama. As a result, Photo Drama was free to exhibit The House of Bondage, and Hand's decision held that the motion picture rights to a copyrighted novel were separate from the dramatic rights.[6]
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