The Unknown Quantity (film)

The Unknown Quantity
Still from the American drama film The Unknown Quantity (1919) with Corinne Griffith with a sewing machine
Directed byThomas R. Mills
Written byG. Marion Burton (scenario)
Based onThe Unknown Quantity, a short story
by O. Henry
StarringCorinne Griffith
CinematographyTom Malloy
Distributed byVitagraph Company of America
Release date
  • April 14, 1919 (1919-04-14) (United States)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

The Unknown Quantity is a lost 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 Institute: Catalog of Feature Films


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