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The Exquisite Thief : [incomplete]

Item number (ISN):

43911

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1919

Item number (ISN):

43911

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Accession:

1979-0191

Media:

Film

Original title:

The Exquisite Thief

Part:

1 of 6

Production date:

1919

Release date:

1919-04-28

Production 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. Dyer

Cast credit:

Priscilla Dean, Thurston Hall, J. Milton Ross, Sam De Grasse, Jean Calhoun, Andrew Robson, Mary Gunn, Wilton Taylor, Sam Polo

Country of production:

us

Distributor 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 intertitles

Notes:

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1. Copyright: Universal Film Mfg. Co., Inc.; 4Apr19; LP13573.~2. Distributed in Canada by Canadian Universal Distributing Company, Limited.~3. Part 2 of 6 only.~4. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' print calculated at 18fps.~5. Based on the short story "Raggedy Ann" by Charles W. Tyler.~6. Assuming Tod Browning to be the creator of this film, this material is under copyright as Browning died in 1962.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

77578

Format:

FILM

Location number:

D-0075

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

77579

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8308-0401

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Donor restrictions:

Use requires credit be given to the Dawson City Museum and Historical Society Collection, National Archives of Canada.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 31 December 2012.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.

Reproduction access:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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