{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Ramshackle House | image = File:Ramshackle House poster.jpg | caption = Film poster | director = F. Harmon Weight | producer = Tilford Cinema Corporation | writer = Coolidge Streeter (scenario) | based_on = {{based on|''Ramshackle House''|Hulbert Footner}} | starring = Betty Compson | music = | cinematography = Larry Williams<br>Bert Wilson | editing = | distributor = Producers Distributing Corporation | released = {{Film date|1924|8|31}} | runtime = 6 reels | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) }} '''''Ramshackle House''''' is a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by F. Harmon Weight and starring Betty Compson. It was adapted for the screen by Coolidge Streeter from the novel of the same name by Hulbert Footner. The film was shot at Tilford's studio in Miami. It was released by Producers Distributing Corporation (PDC).<ref name="afi">{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/11545-RAMSHACKLE-HOUSE |title=AFI Catalog of Feature Films: ''Ramshackle House'' |work=afi.com |access-date=April 19, 2026}}</ref>
==Cast== *Betty Compson as Pen Broome *Robert Lowing as Don Counsell *John Davidson as Ernest Riever *Henry James as Pendleton Broome *William Black as Keesing *Duke Pelzer as Spike Talley *Josephine Norman as Blanche Paglar *Joey Joey as Alligator Wrestler
==Preservation== ''Ramshackle House'' is currently presumed lost.<ref name=''LOC''>{{Cite web |date= |others= |title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Database: ''Ramshackle House'' |url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8550/default.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321095359/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8550/default.html |archive-date=2023-03-21 |access-date=2026-04-19 |website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref> In February of 2021, the film was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list.<ref name="Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films">{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/static/programs/national-film-preservation-board/documents/SFF-LostFilmsList020421.pdf |title=7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29) |publisher=National Film Preservation Board |access-date=April 19, 2026}}</ref>
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==External links== {{commons category|Ramshackle House}} *{{IMDb title|id=0015259|title=Ramshackle House}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160206151714/http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Ramshackle-House-Posters_i9069551_.htm Lobby poster](Wayback) *Footner, Hulbert (1922), ''[https://archive.org/details/ramshacklehouse00footiala Ramshackle House]'', New York: A. L. Burt Company, on the Internet Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramshackle House}} Category:1924 films Category:1924 lost films Category:1924 romantic drama films Category:1924 American films Category:1924 English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:American silent feature films Category:English-language romantic drama films Category:Films based on Canadian novels Category:Films directed by F. Harmon Weight Category:Lost American silent romantic drama films Category:Producers Distributing Corporation films
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