The Price of Divorce

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The Price of Divorce
Directed by Sinclair Hill
Written by Reginald Fogwell (novel)
Leslie Howard Gordon
Produced byHarcourt Temple
Starring Miriam Seegar
Wyndham Standing
Frances Day
Rex Maurice
Cinematography Desmond Dickinson
Production
company
Distributed byStoll Pictures
Release date
1928
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
English intertitles

The Price of Divorce is a 1928 British silent drama film directed by Sinclair Hill and starring Miriam Seegar, Wyndham Standing and Frances Day. [1] The screenplay concerns a doctor's wife who wishes to marry her lover, and so concocts a charge of adultery against her husband in order to divorce him. The film was based on a novel by Reginald Fogwell. It was made at Cricklewood Studios by Stoll Pictures.

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The Price of Divorce was never released as a silent film, but was adapted for sound and released two years later as Such Is the Law (1930).

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