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{{short description|1922 film by Howard Higgin}}
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{{infobox film
| name = Rent Free
| name = Rent Free
| image = Rent Free Poster.jpg
| image = Rent Free Poster.jpg

| imagesize = 190px
| caption = Theatrical poster
| caption = Theatrical poster
| director = [[Howard Higgin]]
| director = [[Howard Higgin]]
| producer = [[Adolph Zukor]]<br>[[Jesse Lasky]]<br>Thomas Buchanan
| producer = [[Adolph Zukor]]<br>[[Jesse Lasky]]<br>Thomas Buchanan
| writer = [[Izola Forrester]] (story)<br>Mann Page (story)<br>[[Elmer Rice]] (scenario)
| writer = [[Elmer Rice]] (scenario)
| story = [[Izola Forrester]]<br>Mann Page
| starring = [[Wallace Reid]]<br>[[Lila Lee]]
| starring = [[Wallace Reid]]<br>[[Lila Lee]]
| music =
| music =
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| editing =
| editing =
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]
| released = January 1, 1922
| released = {{Film date|1922|01|01}}
| runtime = 5 reels; (4,661 feet)
| runtime = 5 [[reel#Motion picture terminology|reels]]; (4,661 feet)
| country = United States
| country = United States
| language = [[Silent films|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s)
| language = [[Silent films|Silent]] (English [[intertitle]]s)


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'''''Rent Free''''' is a [[1922 in film|1922]] American [[silent film|silent]] comedy feature film produced by [[Famous Players-Lasky]] and distributed through [[Paramount Pictures]]. The film starred [[Wallace Reid]] and his current regular co-star [[Lila Lee]]. It was directed by [[Howard Higgin]] and adapted by [[Elmer Rice]] from a story written directly for the screen by [[Izola Forrester]] (the granddaughter of [[John Wilkes Booth]]) and Mann Page. Currently this film is [[lost film|lost]].<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RentFree1922.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Rent Free''] at silentera.com</ref><ref>''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30'' by The American Film Institute, c.1971</ref><ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8642/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Rent Free'']</ref>
'''''Rent Free''''' is a 1922 American [[silent film|silent]] [[comedy film|comedy feature film]] produced by [[Famous Players–Lasky]] and distributed through [[Paramount Pictures]]. The film starred [[Wallace Reid]] and his current regular co-star [[Lila Lee]]. It was directed by [[Howard Higgin]] and adapted by [[Elmer Rice]] from a story written directly for the screen by [[Izola Forrester]] and Mann Page. Currently this film is [[lost film|lost]].<ref>[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RentFree1922.html Progressive Silent Film List: ''Rent Free''] at silentera.com</ref><ref>''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30'' by The American Film Institute, c.1971</ref><ref>[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.8642/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: ''Rent Free'']</ref>


Reid plays the part of a young painter who moves into an abandoned house but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner. In real life Reid was a talented painter.
Reid plays the part of a young painter who moves into an abandoned house but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner. In real life Reid was a talented painter.


This was Higgin's first film as a director.
This was Higgin's first film as a director.

==Plot==
As described in a [[film magazine]],<ref name="Herald">{{cite journal |title=Reviews: ''Rent Free'' |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=14 |issue=4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald14exhi/page/53 53] |publisher=Exhibitors Herald Company |location=New York City |date=January 21, 1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald14exhi}}</ref> Buell Arnister Jr. (Reid) is a New York City artist cast off by his father Buell Arnister Sr. (Barrows) who had planned a legal career for him. Facing poverty and dispossessed by an irate landlady (Leighton), he moves his belongings including his dog to the roof of a 68th Street apartment building, and then becomes a squatter in a mansion that had a door to its roof left open. On a nearby roof he sees two young women, Barbara Teller (Lee) and her friend Justine Tate (Short), who similarly have been dispossessed. When a storm collapses the tent that the women were living in, the artist rescues them and takes them to the mansion, where they also become squatters. It develops that the mansion had been the property of Barbara's father. The stepmother (McDowell) has married the foreign Count de Mourney (Geldart) and they return home to discover the squatters, resulting in a series of funny conglomerations. The troubles are settled after finding a letter and will from the deceased father which take care of Barbara in a proper financial manner and everything is resolved in a happy ending, even for the disdainful stepmother.


==Cast==
==Cast==
*[[Wallace Reid]] - Buell Arnister Jr.
*[[Wallace Reid]] as Buell Arnister Jr.
*[[Lila Lee]] - Barbara Teller
*[[Lila Lee]] as Barbara Teller
*[[Henry A. Barrows]] - Buell Arnister Sr.
*[[Henry A. Barrows]] as Buell Arnister Sr.
*[[Gertrude Short]] - Justine Tate
*[[Gertrude Short]] as Justine Tate
*[[Lucien Littlefield]] - 'Batty' Briggs
*[[Lucien Littlefield]] as 'Batty' Briggs
*[[Lillian Leighton]] - Maria Tebbs
*[[Lillian Leighton]] as Maria Tebbs
*[[Claire McDowell]] - Countess de Mourney
*[[Claire McDowell]] as Countess de Mourney
*[[Clarence Geldart]] -Count de Mourney
*[[Clarence Geldart]] as Count de Mourney

==See also==
*[[Wallace Reid filmography]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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*[http://allmovie.com/work/rent-free-107614 ''Rent Free''; allmovie.com by Janiss Garza]

{{Howard Higgin}}


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Revision as of 20:42, 16 October 2024

Rent Free
Theatrical poster
Directed byHoward Higgin
Written byElmer Rice (scenario)
Story byIzola Forrester
Mann Page
Produced byAdolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
Thomas Buchanan
StarringWallace Reid
Lila Lee
CinematographyCharles E. Schoenbaum
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • January 1, 1922 (1922-01-01)
Running time
5 reels; (4,661 feet)
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent (English intertitles)

Rent Free is a 1922 American silent comedy feature film produced by Famous Players–Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. The film starred Wallace Reid and his current regular co-star Lila Lee. It was directed by Howard Higgin and adapted by Elmer Rice from a story written directly for the screen by Izola Forrester and Mann Page. Currently this film is lost.[1][2][3]

Reid plays the part of a young painter who moves into an abandoned house but is discovered by the daughter of its former owner. In real life Reid was a talented painter.

This was Higgin's first film as a director.

Plot

As described in a film magazine,[4] Buell Arnister Jr. (Reid) is a New York City artist cast off by his father Buell Arnister Sr. (Barrows) who had planned a legal career for him. Facing poverty and dispossessed by an irate landlady (Leighton), he moves his belongings including his dog to the roof of a 68th Street apartment building, and then becomes a squatter in a mansion that had a door to its roof left open. On a nearby roof he sees two young women, Barbara Teller (Lee) and her friend Justine Tate (Short), who similarly have been dispossessed. When a storm collapses the tent that the women were living in, the artist rescues them and takes them to the mansion, where they also become squatters. It develops that the mansion had been the property of Barbara's father. The stepmother (McDowell) has married the foreign Count de Mourney (Geldart) and they return home to discover the squatters, resulting in a series of funny conglomerations. The troubles are settled after finding a letter and will from the deceased father which take care of Barbara in a proper financial manner and everything is resolved in a happy ending, even for the disdainful stepmother.

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Rent Free at silentera.com
  2. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c.1971
  3. ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Rent Free
  4. ^ "Reviews: Rent Free". Exhibitors Herald. 14 (4). New York City: Exhibitors Herald Company: 53. January 21, 1922.
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