Love's Option

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Love's Option
Directed by George Pearson
Written byDouglas Newton (novel)
Starring Dorothy Boyd
Patrick Aherne
James Carew
Henry Vibart
Cinematography Bernard Knowles
Edited by Thorold Dickinson
Production
company
Welsh-Pearson-Elder
Distributed by Paramount British Pictures
Release date
  • 25 September 1928 (1928-09-25)
Running time
66 minutes [1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

Love's Option is a 1928 British silent adventure film directed by George Pearson and starring Dorothy Boyd, Patrick Aherne and James Carew. It was made at Cricklewood Studios based on the novel The Riddle by Douglas Newton. The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures' British subsidiary, enabling the company to meet its yearly quota set down by the British government. The film follows several rivals attempting to gain control of a valuable Spanish copper mine. It was known by the alternative title A Girl of Today.

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  1. Chibnall p.258

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