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1919 film by Tom Terriss

The Climbers
Contemporary newspaper advertisement with The Climbers as a double feature with The Head Waiter (1919)
Directed by	Tom Terriss
Written by	Lucien Hubbard (scenario)
Based on	The Climbers by Clyde Fitch
Produced by	Vitagraph Company of America
Starring	Corinne Griffith
Cinematography	Tom Malloy
Edited by	George Randolph Chester
Distributed by	Vitagraph Company of America
Release date	November 8, 1919 (1919-11-08)
Running time	5 reels; 4,644 feet
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

The Climbers is a 1919 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the Vitagraph Company of America. It is based on Clyde Fitch's 1901 Broadway play. This film was directed by Tom Terriss and stars Corinne Griffith.

A previous version of Fitch's play had been made in 1915 as The Climbers with Gladys Hanson and a later version in 1927 again as The Climbers with Irene Rich.

A print is preserved in the Library of Congress.

Plot

In order to keep his social-climbing wife and daughters in the lifestyle they are accustomed to, wealthy George Hunter makes some large investments in the stock market, but the stocks crash, and he loses a great deal of money. His wealthy aunt offers to bail the family out, but complications ensue.

Cast

Corinne Griffith as Blanche Sterlin
Hugh Huntley as Richard Sterling
Percy Marmont as Ned Warden
Henry Hallam as George Hunter
Josephine Whittell as Clara Hunter
Jane Jennings as Aunt Ruth
James Spottswood as James Garfield Trotter
Corinne Barker as Julia Godesby
Emily Fitzroy as Mrs. Hunter
Charles Halton as Jordan
James A. Furey

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Flame of Passion (1915) The Pearl of the Antilles (1915 The Pursuing Shadow (1915) Society Wolves (1916) My Country First (1916) The Fettered Woman (1917) Find the Woman (1918) The Song of the Soul (1918) The Business of Life (1918) Everybody's Girl (1918) The Triumph of the Weak (1918) To the Highest Bidder (1918) The Woman Between Friends (1918) The Spark Divine (1919) The Tower of Jewels (1919) The Captain's Captain (1919) The Climbers (1919) The Cambric Mask (1919) The Bramble Bush (1919) The Lion and the Mouse (1919) The Third Degree (1919) The Vengeance of Durand (1919) Trumpet Island (1920) Captain Swift (1920) Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920) The Fortune Hunter (1920) The Heart of Maryland (1921) Boomerang Bill (1922) The Challenge (1922) Find the Woman (1922) The Bandolero (1924) The Desert Sheik (1924) His Buddy's Wife (1925) The Romance of a Million Dollars (1926) The Girl from Rio (1927) Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927) Beyond London Lights (1928) Clothes Make the Woman (1928) The Naughty Duchess (1928)

Films directed by Tom Terriss

Flame of Passion (1915)
The Pearl of the Antilles (1915
The Pursuing Shadow (1915)
Society Wolves (1916)
My Country First (1916)
The Fettered Woman (1917)
Find the Woman (1918)
The Song of the Soul (1918)
The Business of Life (1918)
Everybody's Girl (1918)
The Triumph of the Weak (1918)
To the Highest Bidder (1918)
The Woman Between Friends (1918)
The Spark Divine (1919)
The Tower of Jewels (1919)
The Captain's Captain (1919)
The Climbers (1919)
The Cambric Mask (1919)
The Bramble Bush (1919)
The Lion and the Mouse (1919)
The Third Degree (1919)
The Vengeance of Durand (1919)
Trumpet Island (1920)
Captain Swift (1920)
Dead Men Tell No Tales (1920)
The Fortune Hunter (1920)
The Heart of Maryland (1921)
Boomerang Bill (1922)
The Challenge (1922)
Find the Woman (1922)
The Bandolero (1924)
The Desert Sheik (1924)
His Buddy's Wife (1925)
The Romance of a Million Dollars (1926)
The Girl from Rio (1927)
Temptations of a Shop Girl (1927)
Beyond London Lights (1928)
Clothes Make the Woman (1928)
The Naughty Duchess (1928)

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