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1919 American silent directed by Thomas R. Mills
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.

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

External links

Films directed by Thomas R. Mills
  • The Cop and the Anthem (1917)
  • The Defeat of the City (1917)
  • The Duplicity of Hargraves (1917)
  • Friends in San Rosario (1917)
  • The Furnished Room (1917)
  • The Gold That Glittered (1917)
  • The Green Door (1917)
  • The Guilty Party (1917)
  • The Love Philtre of Idey Schoenstein (1917)
  • The Marionettes (1917)
  • A Night in New Arabia (1917)
  • No Story (1917)
  • Past one at Rooney's (1917)
  • The Renaissance at Charlerio (1917)
  • The Third Ingredient (1917)
  • The Venturers (1917)
  • An American Livewire (1918)
  • Thin Ice (1919)
  • The Unknown Quantity (1919)
  • Duds (1920)
  • The Friendly Call (1920)
  • The Invisible Divorce (1920)
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