{{short description|1919 film}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = The Bandbox | image = Doris Kenyon The Bandbox Film Daily 1919.png | caption = | director =Roy William Neill | producer = |based_on = ''The Bandbox'' by Louis Joseph Vance | writer = Roy Somerville | narrator = | starring =Doris Kenyon <br> Walter McEwen <br> Gretchen Hartman | music = | cinematography =Ned Van Buren <br> Edward Wynard | editing = | studio =Deitrich-Beck | distributor = Hodkinson Pictures <br> Pathé Exchange | released = {{Film date|1919|11|22}} | runtime =60 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent <br> English intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''The Bandbox''''' is a 1919 American silent mystery crime film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Doris Kenyon, Walter McEwen and Gretchen Hartman.<ref>Connelly p. 319</ref> It is based on the 1912 novel of the same title by Louis Joseph Vance. Location shooting took place in Central Park and on Lake Mohegan in New York State.
==Plot== A pearl necklace is smuggled through customs without paying duty after arriving in America from an ocean liner and a gang of criminals hot on the trail of them.
==Cast== * Doris Kenyon as Eleanor Searle * Walter McEwen as Arbuthnot Ismay / William H. Iff * Gretchen Hartman as Alison Landis * Edward Keppler as Arthur Arkroyd * Maggie Weston as Mrs. Clover * Logan Paul as Ehraim Clover * Lorraine Harding as Marie * Alexander Gaden as Benjamin Staff
==Preservation== With no holdings located in archives, ''The Bandbox'' is considered a lost film.<ref>{{cite web|date=|others=|title=The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Bandbox|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3579/default.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321012508/http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.3579/default.html|archive-date=2023-03-21|access-date=2026-04-21|website=memory.loc.gov}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Connelly, Robert B. ''The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910–36, Volume 40, Issue 2''. December Press, 1998. * Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
==External links== *{{IMDb title|0009902}}
{{Roy William Neill}}
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