The Business of Love
| The Business of Love | |
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| Directed by | |
| Written by | Ford Beebe |
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| Cinematography | Irving Reis |
Production company | Principal Pictures |
| Distributed by | Astor Pictures |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
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The Business of Love is a 1925 American silent comedy film directed by Irving Reis and Jess Robbins and starring Edward Everett Horton, Barbara Bedford, and Zasu Pitts.[1]
Plot
As described in a film magazine review,[2] a young man educated for the law derives so much more pleasure from tinkering with clocks and radios that he falls from his rich uncle’s graces. On one of his repairing exDeditions he meets and is attracted to the daughter of an inventor. When he learns that the man selected by his uncle as the other member of the law firm of which he presumably is a member, is plotting to swindle the inventor, he schemes against the schemer. Finally, he is successful both in breaking the plot and in wooing the inventor’s daughter.
Cast
- Edward Everett Horton as Edward Burgess
- Barbara Bedford as Barbara Richmond
- Zasu Pitts as Miss Wright
- Tom Ricketts as Noah Burgess
- Dorothy Wood as Inez Scarborough
- Carl Stockdale as James Scarborough
- Tom Murray as Sweeney
- James T. Kelley as Martin Block
- Stanley Taylor as Willis Graves
- Newton Hall as Bobby
- Herbert Sherwood as Mullins
- Jim MacIntyre as Bluett
Preservation
In February of 2021, The Business of Love was cited by the National Film Preservation Board on their Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films list and is therefore presumed lost.[3][4]
References
- ^ Munden p. 100
- ^ "New Pictures: Business of Love", Exhibitors Herald, 23 (7), Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 54, November 7, 1925, retrieved November 5, 2022 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ "7,200 Lost U.S. Silent Feature Films (1912-29)" (PDF). National Film Preservation Board. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
- ^ "American Silent Feature Film Database: The Business of Love". Library of Congress. Archived from the original on March 21, 2023. Retrieved March 5, 2026.
Bibliography
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.