Handcuffs or Kisses?
AKA Handcuffs and Kisses in the United Kingdom
(1921) American
B&W : Six reels
Directed by George Archainbaud

Cast: Elaine Hammerstein, Julia Swayne Gordon, Dorothy Chappell, Robert Ellis, Alison Skipworth, Florence Billings, Ronald Schabel, George Lessey, Ronald Colman

Lewis J. Selznick Pictures Company production; distributed by Select Pictures Corporation. / Produced by Lewis J. Selznick. Scenario by Lewis Allen Browne, from the story “Handcuffs and Kisses” by Thomas Edgelow. Cinematography by Jules Cronjager. / Released 5 September 1921. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Colman’s first Hollywood film. The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1922.

Drama.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Prisons

Listing updated: 23 March 2007.

References: Lahue-Gentlemen p. 61; Quirk-Colman pp. 15, 33-34; Robertson-British p. 186; Smith-Colman pp. 8, 17-18, 151.