The Man on the Box

1914 film

July 13, 1914 (1914-07-13)

CountryUnited StatesLanguageSilent with English intertitles

The Man on the Box is a 1914 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Oscar Apfel and co-directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It was based on the 1904 novel of the same name by Harold MacGrath and stars Horace B. Carpenter.^[1]

Max Figman had starred in the Broadway version in 1907 and reprises his role here in this film. A surviving film at the Library of Congress and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (Madison).^[2]

Cast

Horace B. Carpenter as Russian ambassador
Jane Darwell as Mrs. Chadwick
William Elmer as Troop commander
Max Figman as Lt. Bob Warburton
Harry Fisher as Chales Henderson
Betty Johnson as Nancy Warburton (as Betty Jonson)
Jack W. Johnston as Count Karloff (as J.W. Johnston)
C. F. Le None as Scout
Fred Montague as Col. Raleigh
James Neill as Col. Annesley
Lolita Robertson as Betty Annesley
Mabel Van Buren as Kit Warburton

References

^ "Progressive Silent Film List: The Man on the Box". Silent Era. Retrieved February 17, 2010.
^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Man on the Box

External links

The Man on the Box at IMDb

Films directed by Oscar Apfel

Brewster's Millions (1914)
The Call of the North (1914)
The Ghost Breaker (1914)
The Circus Man (1914)
The Man on the Box (1914)
The Master Mind (1914)
The Making of Bobby Burnit (1914)
The Squaw Man (1914)
The Only Son (1914)
After Five (1915)
The Little Gypsy (1915)
The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915)
Snobs (1915)
Kilmeny (1915)
Peer Gynt (1915)
A Soldier's Oath (1915)
The Wild Olive (1915)
The Fires of Conscience (1916)
The Battle of Hearts (1916)
The Man from Bitter Roots (1916)
A Man of Sorrow (1916)
The Interloper (1918)
The Turn of a Card (1918)
Merely Players (1918)
A Man's Man (1918)
Tinsel (1918)
Mandarin's Gold (1919)
Phil for Short (1919)
The Rough Neck (1919)
Ravished Armenia (1919)
Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1921)
The Man Who Paid (1922)
Bulldog Drummond (1922)
In Search of a Thrill (1923)
The Lion's Mouse (1923)
The Social Code (1923)
The Heart Bandit (1924)
The Trail of the Law (1924)
Borrowed Finery (1925)
The Thoroughbred (1925)
The Sporting Chance (1925)
The Call of the Klondike (1926)
Somebody's Mother (1926)
The Last Alarm (1926)

v t e Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille
Silent	The Squaw Man (1914) Brewster's Millions (1914) The Master Mind (1914) The Only Son (1914) The Man on the Box (1914) The Call of the North (1914) The Virginian (1914) What's His Name (1914) The Man from Home (1914) Rose of the Rancho (1914) The Ghost Breaker (1914) The Girl of the Golden West (1915) After Five (1915) The Warrens of Virginia (1915) The Unafraid (1915) The Captive (1915) The Wild Goose Chase (1915) The Arab (1915) Chimmie Fadden (1915) Kindling (1915) Carmen (1915) Chimmie Fadden Out West (1915) The Cheat (1915) Temptation (1915) The Golden Chance (1915) The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916) The Heart of Nora Flynn (1916) Maria Rosa (1916) The Dream Girl (1916) Joan the Woman (1916) A Romance of the Redwoods (1917) The Little American (1917) The Woman God Forgot (1917) Nan of Music Mountain (1917) The Devil-Stone (1917) The Whispering Chorus (1918) Old Wives for New (1918) We Can't Have Everything (1918) Till I Come Back to You (1918) The Squaw Man (1918) Don't Change Your Husband (1919) For Better, for Worse (1919) Male and Female (1919) Why Change Your Wife? (1920) Something to Think About (1920) Forbidden Fruit (1921) The Affairs of Anatol (1921) Fool's Paradise (1921) Saturday Night (1922) Manslaughter (1922) Adam's Rib (1923) The Ten Commandments (1923) Triumph (1924) Feet of Clay (1924) The Golden Bed (1925) The Road to Yesterday (1925) The Volga Boatman (1926) The King of Kings (1927) Walking Back (1928) The Godless Girl (1928)
Sound	Dynamite (1929) Madam Satan (1930) The Squaw Man (1931) The Sign of the Cross (1932) This Day and Age (1933) Four Frightened People (1934) Cleopatra (1934) The Crusades (1935) The Plainsman (1936) The Buccaneer (1938) Union Pacific (1939) North West Mounted Police (1940) Reap the Wild Wind (1942) The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Unconquered (1947) Samson and Delilah (1949) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) The Ten Commandments (1956)

Films directed by Cecil B. DeMille

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