The Recoil is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter based on a Rex Beach story.

[1][2] As described in a film magazine review,[3] Gordon Kent, an enormously wealthy American, comes from South America to paint Europe red with wild parties with beautiful women and where champagne flows from fountains.

In Deauville he meets and loves Norma Selbee, a penniless American who rings herself in during one of Kent's lavish parties.

They marry, but despite receiving showered attentions from her husband, Norma elopes with the wily adventurer Marchmont.

Selbee is killed by Marchmont, and Kent, regretting his actions, takes Norma with him to happiness in South America.