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Genre
  
Comedy

Story by
  
Earl Derr Biggers

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Donald Crisp

Screenplay
  
Marion Fairfax

Duration
  


Language
  
Silent (English intertitles)

Release date
  
August 17, 1919

Based on
  
Love Insurance  by Earl Derr Biggers

Writer
  
Earl Derr Biggers (novel), Marion Fairfax (scenario)

Cast
  
A Edward Sutherland
(Jack Paddock),
Lois Wilson
(Cynthia Meyrick),
Bryant Washburn
(Dick Minot),
Theodore Roberts
(Spencer Meyrick),
Frank Elliott
(Allan Harrowby)

Similar movies
  
One Night in the Tropics (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Lost World (1925), Sherlock Holmes (1922), Lilies of the Field (1924)

Love Insurance is a lost 1919 American silent comedy film directed by Donald Crisp, produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the novel of the same name by Earl Derr Biggers, Love Insurance.

Contents

Love Insurance was later remade in 1924 as The Reckless Age and in sound era in 1940 as One Night in the Tropics.

Front page love insurance 1979


Plot

As described in a film magazine, Lord Allan Harrowby (Elliott), upon arriving in America to wed an heiress, goes to the New York office of Lloyd's of London and insures against the lady changing her mind. Dick Minot (Washburn), assistant manager of the office, is assigned to the task of preventing that occurrence. He meets Cynthia Meyrick (Wilson), the lady in question, but not knowing her identity falls in love with her. However, business is his first thought and when she decides that she does not love her fiance and is about to break her engagement, he does all in his power to bring about the wedding. This involves defeating a stranger who claims to be the real Lord Harrowby, outwitting a customs official who seeks to arrest the nobleman for smuggling in a diamond necklace, the routing of a clever criminal who tries to steal the necklace, and effecting the dismissal of a young woman who threatens a suit for breach of promise. After all this is effected and the wedding about to proceed, Cynthia again changes her mind, but this time it is because of an act by Harrowby. By the terms of the policy, this releases the company, so Dick presents his own case to Cynthia, which she accepts and they elope.

Cast

  • Bryant Washburn as Dick Minot
  • Lois Wilson as Cynthia Meyrick
  • Theodore Roberts as Spencer Meyrick
  • Frances Raymond as Mary Meyrick
  • Frank Elliott as Allan Harrowby
  • Edwin Stevens as Martin Wall
  • Clarence Geldart as George Harrowby
  • A. Edward Sutherland as Jack Paddock
  • P. Dempsey Tabler as Hunt
  • Fred E. Wright as O'Malley
  • Edward Alexander as Jarvis
  • Wilton Taylor as Stacy
  • Fred Huntley as Jenkins
  • Willard Louis as Trimmer
  • Ethel Fleming as Gabrielle
  • References

    Love Insurance Wikipedia
    Love Insurance IMDb