The Bargain | |
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Directed by | Reginald Barker |
Screenplay by | William Clifford Thomas Ince |
Starring | William S. Hart |
Cinematography | Robert Newhard Joseph H. August |
Production company | New York Motion Pictures Corp. |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Languages | Silent English intertitles |
The Bargain is a 1914 American silent Western film starring William S. Hart. It was the first feature film starring Hart,[1] who would go on to become the most popular Western actor of the silent film era. In 2010, it was one of the 25 films added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." The second Hart Western to be named to the National Film Registry (after Hell's Hinges in 1994), The Bargain was said to have been selected because of Hart's charisma, the film's authenticity and realistic portrayal of the Western genre.[2][3]