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Cast
  
Horace B. Carpenter

Language
  
Silent

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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama

Story by
  
Harold MacGrath

Country
  
United States

Director
  
Oscar Apfel Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited)

Writer
  
Harold McGrath (novel)

Release date
  
July 13, 1914 (1914-07-13)

Based on
  
The Man on the Box  by Harold MacGrath

Directors
  
Cecil B. DeMille, Oscar Apfel

Genres
  
Silent film, Comedy, Drama, Indie film, Black-and-white

Similar movies
  
The Squaw Man (1914)

The Man on the Box is a 1914 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and co-directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was based on the 1904 novel of the same name by Harold MacGrath and stars Horace B. Carpenter.

Max Figman had starred in the Broadway version in 1907 and reprises his role here in this film.

A surviving film at the Library of Congress and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Madison).

Cast

  • Horace B. Carpenter as Russian ambassador
  • Jane Darwell as Mrs. Chadwick
  • William Elmer as Troop commander
  • Max Figman as Lt. Bob Warburton
  • Harry Fisher as Chales Henderson
  • Betty Johnson as Nancy Warburton (as Betty Jonson)
  • Jack W. Johnston as Count Karloff (as J.W. Johnston)
  • C. F. Le None as Scout
  • Fred Montague as Col. Raleigh
  • James Neill as Col. Annesley
  • Lolita Robertson as Betty Annesley
  • Mabel Van Buren as Kit Warburton
  • Fred L. Wilson as Jack Warburton

    • References

    The Man on the Box Wikipedia
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    The Man on the Box IMDb