By Hook or Crook (film) explained

By Hook or Crook
Director:	Dell Henderson
Starring:	Carlyle Blackwell Evelyn Greeley Jack Drumier
Studio:	World Film
Distributor:	World Film
Runtime:	50 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent English intertitles

By Hook or Crook is a 1918 American silent comedy film directed by Dell Henderson and starring Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley and Jack Drumier. It was shot at Fort Lee, New Jersey.^[1]

Cast

• Carlyle Blackwell as Frederic Pritchard
• Evelyn Greeley as Gloria Nevins
• Jack Drumier as Frederic Pritchard Sr.
• Frank Doane as Smithson
• Jennie Ellison as Mrs. Pritchard
• Nora Cecil as Aunt Marie
• Alice Chapin as Mrs. Nevins
• Henry Warwick as Henry Arnold

Preservation

With no prints of By Hook or Crook located in any film archives, it is considered a lost film.^[2]

Bibliography

• Altomara, Rita Ecke. Hollywood on the Palisades: A Filmography of Silent Features Made in Fort Lee, New Jersey, 1903-1927. Garland Pub, 1983.
• Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998.
• Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997.

Notes and References

1. Altomara p.15
2. https://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4100/ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: By Hook or Crook