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The Wise Guy : [incomplete]
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1926Item number (ISN):19210Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:WELLS, Charles B.Accession:1980-0176Media:FilmOriginal title:The Wise GuyPart:6 of 8 ?Production date:1926Release date:1926-05-23Production company:Frank Lloyd Productions Inc.Production credit:director/producer, Frank Lloyd; scenario, Ada McQuillin; photography, Norbert BrodinCast credit:Mary Astor, James KirkwoodCountry of production:usDistributor name:First National Pictures Inc.Description:Guy Watson (James Kirkwood), because of his magnetic personality, is able to persuade people to purchase fake medicines while his cohorts - Bozo, Hula Kate, and Ma - pick the onlookers' pockets; later, posing as a minister, he delivers a sermon at a country funeral. The decedent's daughter, Mary (Mary Astor), joins the travelling mission, convinced by Guy's preaching although she incurs the jealousy of Hula Kate. Guy soon atains a great hold on the public, but gradually Ma and her husband, the professor, get "hooked" on religion, and Bozo leaves the group when he is reunited with his long-lost mother. Later, he is shot by a policeman who mistakes him for a burglar. When Ma dies in spite of Guy's prayers, he confesses to his congregation that he is a fraud and hypocrite, and they forgive him. Mary is discovered to be a crook, and though she and Guy are sent to separate prisons, they await eventual happiness together.Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Genre:DRAMADetailed holdings information: -
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