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The Bargain (1914)
Production Co.: New York Motion Picture Corp. Distribution Co: Paramount Pictures Corporation. Producer: Thomas H. Ince. Director: Reginald Barker. Camera: Joseph H. August or Robert Newhard. Story: William H. Clifford, Thomas H. Ince, and Richard V. Spencer. Cast: William S. Hart (Jim Stokes), J. Frank Burke (Sheriff Bud Walsh), J. Barney Sherry (Phil Brent), James Dawley (Wilkes the Minister), and Clara Williams (Nell Brent). Transfer Note: Scanned from a 35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress. New Music: Ben Model. Running Time: 80 minutes.

The NFPF wishes to thank the National Film Preservation Board for allowing the reproduction of this Program Note, originally created for the National Film Registry. The Bargain was added to the Registry in 2010.    

The story of the making of this film goes back to the cold winter of 1903, when two out-of-work actors, Thomas Ince and William...

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