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The Price He Paid

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The Price He Paid
Directed byLawrence McGill
Based onthe poem, "The Price He Paid"
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
StarringPhilip Hahn
Gertrude Shipman
Julia Hurley
Production
company
Humanology Film Producing Co.
Distributed byUnited Film Service
Release date
  • December 7, 1914 (1914-12-07) (US)[1]
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Price He Paid is a 1914 American silent melodrama film, directed by Lawrence McGill. It stars Philip Hahn, Gertrude Shipman, and Julia Hurley, and was released on December 7, 1914. The film was inspired by the Ella Wheeler Wilcox poem of the same name.[2][3]

Plot

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This film depicts the evolution of a man as he betrays all of the people he knows, eventually dying from syphilis in a padded cell. [4]

Cast list

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References

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  1. ^ "The Price He Paid". American Film Institute. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  2. ^ "AFI|Catalog".
  3. ^ "The Price He Paid". 1916.
  4. ^ "The Price He Paid". American Film Institute. Retrieved 2023-07-20.
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