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Directed by | Reginald Barker |
Written by | Louis Sherwin (scenario) |
Based on | His House in Order byArthur Wing Pinero |
Produced by | Goldwyn Pictures |
Starring | Pauline Frederick |
Cinematography | Edward Gheller |
Distributed by | Goldwyn Pictures |
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Running time | 50 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
Bonds of Love is a 1919 Americansilent romantic drama film directed byReginald Barker and starringPauline Frederick.[1] It is based on the 1906Arthur Wing Pinero playHis House in Order. Distributed byGoldwyn Pictures, the film is now consideredlost.[2]
Una Sayre, a governess in widower Daniel Cabot's home, saves his son, young Jimmy Cabot, from drowning. Through her attention to the child, she wins the love of her employer despite the plotting of Lucy and Harry Beekman, his late wife's brother and sister. When Una discovers a love letter written by a man whom the first wife was seeing, she visits him and demands that he return all of her letters. Lucy and Harry Beekman use this meeting to cast suspicions on Una's reputation, but Cabot eventually discovers that Una was acting in his own interest. He finally overcomes his devotion to the memory of his dead wife, and throws her greedy relatives out.
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