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$20 a Week
Also known as {Twenty Dollars a Week}
(1924) American
B&W : Six reels / 5990 feet
Directed by Harmon F. Weight

Cast: George Arliss [John Reeves], Taylor Holmes [William Hart], Edith Roberts [Muriel Hart], Walter Howe [Henry Sloane], Redfield Clarke [George Blair], Ronald Colman [Chester Reeves], Ivan Simpson [James Pettison], Joseph Donohue [Little Arthur], William Sellery [Clancy, the restaurant keeper], George Henry [the Hart butler]

Distinctive Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Selznick Distributing Corporation. / Scenario by Forrest Halsey, from the short story “The Adopted Father” by Edgar Franklin. Cinematography by Harry A. Fischbeck. / © 29 March 1924 by Distinctive Pictures Corporation [LP20205]. Released 12 April 1924. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format.

Comedy-Drama.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive [35mm positive].

Current rights holder: (unknown)

Listing updated: 14 December 2008.

References: Lahue-Gentlemen p. 61; Quirk-Colman pp. 16, 46, 47-48; Smith-Colman pp. 10, 25-26 : Website-AFI.