Second Hand Love

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Second Hand Love
Second Hand Love 1923 film poster.jpg
Directed by William Wellman
Written by Shannon Fife (story)
Charles Kenyon (scenario)
Produced by William Fox
Starring Buck Jones
CinematographyDonovan Short
Distributed by Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • August 26, 1923 (1923-08-26)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUSA
LanguageSilent (with English titles)

Second Hand Love is a 1923 American melodrama film directed by William A. Wellman. [1] It was released on August 12, 1923, and had five reels. [2]

Contents

Premise

Andy Hanks helps Angela Trent escape from her bootlegger husband.

Cast

Production

Wellman’s biography relates that ”Between August 1923 and May 1924, Wellman directed seven Westerns at Fox Studios. Six of these oaters starred one of the best loved and most idolized of the series Western stars, Charles”Buck” Jones”, the first being Second Hand Love. [3] Their first collaboration is reported to have been enjoyable. [3]

Reception

A review in Moving Picture World wrote it was a satire of gossiping in small town communities, praised the climax of the library burning but wondered if the title was appropriate. [4] Another review, in Motion Picture News , praised the same scene but found the setting stereotyped and the film mediocre. [5] The Exhibitor’s Trade Review stated: ”Charles Jones furnishes an agreeable charactor sketch in the role of Andy. Ruth Dwyer is sweetly charming and wistfully appealing, as becomes a persecuted heroine. The support is capable and the village types life-like. There are many pretty exteriors, the interiors are skillfully filmed and the lighting is clear and distinct.” [6]

References

  1. ↑ Frank T. Thompson (February 1, 1983). William A. Wellman. Scarecrow Press. ISBN   978-0-8108-1594-0 . Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  2. ↑ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved January 26, 2026.
  3. 1 2 Wellman, William A. (2015). Wild Bill Wellman : Hollywood rebel. Internet Archive. New York : Pantheon Books. ISBN   978-0-307-37770-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  4. ↑ Sept-Oct; Chalmers Publishing Company (1923). Moving Picture World (Sep-Oct 1923). New York The Museum of Modern Art Library. New York, Chalmers Publishing Company. p. 670.
  5. ↑ New York, Motion Picture News (1923). Motion Picture News (Sep-Oct 1923). New York The Museum of Modern Art Library. Motion Picture News, Inc. p. 1905.{{cite book}}: Missing |author1= (help)
  6. ↑ Exhibitor's Trade Review (Sep-Nov 1923). MBRS Library of Congress. New York, Exhibitor's trade review, inc. 1923. p. 1107.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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