{{short description|1919 film by William Worthington}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = His Debt | image = His Debt (1919) - Ad 2.jpg | alt = | caption = Advertisement for film | director = William Worthington | producer = | writer = | screenplay = | story = L. V. Jefferson | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|writer of the original work}} --> | narrator = | starring = {{Plainlist| *Sessue Hayakawa *Jane Novak *Francis McDonald *Fred Montague }} | music = | cinematography = Frank D. Williams | editing = | studio = Haworth Pictures Corporation | distributor = Robertson-Cole | released = {{Film date|1919|05|25|USA}} | runtime = 50 min. | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }} '''''His Debt''''' is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by William Worthington and produced by Haworth Pictures Corporation.<ref name="Miyao2007">{{cite book|last=Miyao|first=Daisuke|authorlink=Daisuke Miyao|title=Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XdByFX5R08kC&pg=PA241|date=7 March 2007|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-8982-8|page=241}}</ref>
==Plot== As described in a film magazine,<ref>{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''His Debt'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=8 |issue=25 |page=51 |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=June 14, 1919 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald08exhi}}</ref> Goto Mariyama, Japanese owner of a fashionable gambling house, accepts the worthless check of Blair Whitcomb, who has lost his fortune at the gaming table. Whitcomb makes an attempt on Mariyama's life. Gloria Manning, Whitcomb's fiance, is a nurse and saves Mariyama's life. He is about to propose marriage when he learns of her engagement. Much as he loves her, he still is determined to have his revenge upon Whitcomb. When the police come to take Whitcomb prisoner, so earnestly does Gloria plead for her sweetheart, even after she learns of his guilt, that Mariyama relents.
==Cast== *Sessue Hayakawa as Goto Mariyama *Jane Novak as Gloria Manning *Francis McDonald as Blair Whitcomb *Fred Montague as J.P. Manning
==Preservation== With no holdings located in archives, ''His Debt'' is considered a lost film.<ref>{{cite web|date=|others=|title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Catalog: His Debt|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6182/default.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321052541/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6182/default.html|archive-date=2023-03-21|access-date=2026-04-24|website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|His Debt}} *{{IMDb title|0205128}} {{William Worthington}}
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