After Business Hours

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After Business Hours
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Still with Hammerstein and Tellegen
Directed by Malcolm St. Clair
Written by Walter Anthony
Douglas Z. Doty
Based on"Everything Money Can Buy"
by Ethel Watts Mumford
Starring Elaine Hammerstein
Lou Tellegen
Phyllis Haver
Cinematography Dewey Wrigley
Edited by Errol Taggart
Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • June 16, 1925 (1925-06-16)
Running time
56 minutes
CountryUnited States
Language Silent (English intertitles)

After Business Hours is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and starring Elaine Hammerstein, Lou Tellegen, and Phyllis Haver. [1] [2]

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Plot

As described in a film magazine review, [3] John King enters married life with the plan of allowing his wife June no money except a few dollars a week. She gambles, loses, and is ashamed to ask her husband for enough to pay her losses. In an effort to repay her losses, she goes into gambling more heavily until her debts increase to a large sum. She gives her pearls as security. Her chauffeur blackmails her for money. To supply him with money, she takes a pin, which her friend Sylvia had dropped at her home, to a pawnbroker, forging Sylvia's signature. The pawnbroker, who had been turned down for membership in John's club, is ambitious to become a member. To force his way into the club, he threatens to disclose the forgery, causing the arrest of June. John fights him and obtains the pin. Returning home, his wife tells him the truth about the pin. He forgives her, taking the blame himself.

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Preservation

A nitrate master of After Business Hours that is missing one of its five reels is in the collections of Library and Archives Canada. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Munden p. 8
  2. ↑ Progressive Silent Film List: After Business Hours at silentera.com
  3. ↑ "New Pictures: Faint Perfume", Exhibitors Herald, Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company, 22 (5): 58, July 25, 1925, retrieved July 1, 2022PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  4. ↑ "After Business Hours". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved May 5, 2022.

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