The Cost of a Kiss is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by Adrian Brunel and starring Bertram Wallis, Marjorie Day and Edward Cooper. It marked the feature film debut of Brunel who went on to become a leading British director of the 1920s. It was the only film produced by Mirror Films, a company set up by Brunel and the screenwriter H. Fowler Mear.
, 1h26 Directed byAlfred Hitchcock, Adrian Brunel, Jack Hulbert, André Charlot OriginUnited-kingdom GenresComedy, Musical theatre, Musical ThemesMusical films ActorsDonald Calthrop, Bobbie Comber, Jameson Thomas, Anna May Wong, Cicely Courtneidge, Gordon Harker Rating50% The film, referred to as "A Cine-Radio Revue" in its original publicity, is a lavish musical film revue and was Britain's answer to the Hollywood revues which had been produced by the major studios in the United States, such as Paramount on Parade (1930) and Hollywood Review of 1929. The revue has a slim storyline about it being a television broadcast. The film consists of 19 comedy and music vignettes linked by running jokes of an aspiring Shakespearean actor and technical problems with a viewer's TV set.