Week End Husbands

As described in a review in a film magazine,{{cite journal |last=Waller |first=Tom |author-link= |title=Week End Husbands: Alma Rubens and Good Supporting Cast in This Daniel Carson Goodman Production |journal=The Moving Picture World |volume=66 |issue=7 |pages=583 |publisher=Chalmers Publishing Co. |location=New York City |date=1924-02-16 |url=https://archive.org/details/movingpicturewor66feb/page/583/mode/1up |access-date=19 March 2021}} in order to provide luxuries for his wife Barbara (Rubens), William Randall (Herbert) becomes a bootlegger. He is at liberty only over weekends. Barbara is influenced by a crowd of jazzy associates. She goes out canoeing with an admirer at a country resort during which she proves her love for her husband. While returning, the canoe is run down by a yacht. Barbara narrowly escapes from being drowned while the admirer swims away to safety. Randall hears of the incident from the gossipers at the country place, causing him to part with his wife. She goes to Paris. Randall’s bootlegging activities are discovered by Federal agents and, after being arrested, he is released after posting bail. In the meantime Barbara’s friends have deserted her. Even her mother refuses to provide any financial aid. She sends for her husband. He does not reply but starts out immediately for Paris. She, believing that William hates her, takes poison. He arrives by airplane just as the doctor abandons all hope of saving her. She recovers, however, and they return to America together on an ocean liner.

{{Cast listing|

• Alma Rubens as Barbara Belden
• Holmes Herbert as William Randall (credited as H.J. Herbert)
• Montagu Love as Thomas Mowry
• Maurice Costello as John Keane
• Sally Crute as Mrs. Dawn
• Charles Byer as Robert Stover
• Paul Panzer as Monsieur La Rue
• Margaret Dale as Mrs. Sarah Belden

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There is some discrepancy in some sources regarding the identity of the actor who plays William Randall. Although this film is long lost, there are still photos that survive which reveal actor Holmes Herbert in the role of William Randall. Henry Hebert, who is sometimes and erroneously listed for this role, is an entirely different actor who is not in this film. Holmes Herbert and Henry Hebert are two different people. Both actors, however, died in 1956.

With no prints of Week End Husbands located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.10374/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Week End Husbands] it is a lost film.

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• {{IMDb title|0015475|Week End Husbands}}
• [http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/5/9/9/9/2/1/webimg/616795956_tp.jpg Holmes Herbert and Montagu Love; Week End Husbands] at auctiva.com
• [http://www.gettyimages.com/license/517391844 Still with Alma Rubens and Holmes Herbert in a scene from the film] at gettyimages.com

{{Edward H. Griffith}}

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Category:1924 films

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