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The Exquisite Thief : [incomplete]
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1919Item number (ISN):43911Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETYAccession:1979-0191Media:FilmOriginal title:The Exquisite ThiefPart:1 of 6Production date:1919Release date:1919-04-28Production company:Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.Production credit:director, Tod Browning; scenario, Harvey Gates; Waldemar Young; photography, Alfred G. Gosden; assistant director, Fred Tyler; K.C. Stewart; props, E. DyerCast credit:Priscilla Dean, Thurston Hall, J. Milton Ross, Sam De Grasse, Jean Calhoun, Andrew Robson, Mary Gunn, Wilton Taylor, Sam PoloCountry of production:usDistributor name:Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.Description:A "super-crook" adventure in which Priscilla Dean plays Blue Jean Billie, a thief who crashes a fashionable party and carries off an English lord, intending to ask a ransom for his return. She, however, falls in love with him and releases him, only to discover he is a in turn a notorious thief. He thwarts the attempts of her former accomplice to double cross her and they both resolve to reform.~Scenes in this single reel include: the thief, Priscilla Dean, robbing guests at a dinner party of their jewellery, Dean escaping, with her chauffeur, in a car; the thieves getting home to find Thurston Hall on the running board; the pair tying Hall to a chair; Hall freeing himself while Dean is examining the night's haul in the next room; Dean returning to Hall who pretends to be still tied up; and the police examining a photograph of Hall and looking through their files. <11mn>Language:Silent with English intertitlesNotes:Genre:DRAMADetailed holdings information: -
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