Secret Service (1919 film)

Secret Service
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Directed by	Hugh Ford Joe Boyle (assistant director)
Written by	Beulah Marie Dix (scenario)
Based on	Secret Service (play) by William Gillette
Produced by	Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky
Starring	Robert Warwick Wanda Hawley
Cinematography	William Marshall
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	June 15, 1919 (1919-06-15)
Running time	60 minutes; 6 reels
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Secret Service is a lost 1919 American silent American Civil War drama film starring Robert Warwick and directed by Hugh Ford. It was produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Based on the play Secret Service by William Gillette (New York, 5 Oct 1896), it was remade as a talking picture by RKO in 1931.

One of the story’s chief plot twists is referenced in the 1923 short story "Devil Cat", featuring Carroll John Daly’s hard boiled detective Race Williams.

Cast

• Robert Warwick as Major Lewis K. Dumont
• Wanda Hawley as Edith Varney
• Theodore Roberts as General Harrison Randolph
• Edythe Chapman as Mrs. Varney
• Raymond Hatton as Lt. Howard Varney
• Casson Ferguson as Wilfred Varney
• Robert Cain as Captain Henry Dumont
• Irving Cummings as Benton Arrelsford
• Guy Oliver as Jonas
• Lillian Leighton as Martha
• Stanley Wheatcroft as Lt. Maxwell (*Stanhope Wheatcroft)
• Shirley Mason as Caroline Mitford

See also

• List of films and television shows about the American Civil War

External links

• Secret Service at IMDb
• Synopsis at AllMovie