Paying the Limit

Paying the Limit
Directed byTom Gibson
Frank Capra (assistant director)
Written byTom Gibson (scenario)
Produced byPaul Gerson Pictures[1]
StarringOra Carew
CinematographyGeorge Crocker
Distributed byStates' rights distribution
Release date
  • February 10, 1924 (1924-02-10)
Running time
5 reels
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Paying the Limit is a 1924 silent film melodrama directed by Tom Gibson and starring Ora Carew.[2][1]

A print survives in the Library of Congress.[3][4]

Development

This film was the second in a series[1] of Ora Carew-starring movies with the same company of actors:

  1. Waterfront Wolves (1924)
  2. Paying the Limit (1924)
  3. Three Days to Live (1924)
  4. Getting Her Man (1924)

Cast

  • Ora Carew as Raffles
  • Helen Nowell as Joan Lowden
  • Eddie O'Brien as Thunder Lowden
  • Arthur Wellington as Jerry Davis
  • Jay Morley as Tom Dover
  • Tiny Sandford as Ole
  • Dick Stevens as Baptiste Tudor

Production

The San Francisco based studio filmed in Burlingame, California.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Paying the Limit at AFI Catalog of Feature Films
  2. ↑ Paying the Limit at silentera.com
  3. ↑ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress p.139 c.1978 by The American Film Institute
  4. ↑ Paying the Limit at American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog, Library of Congress