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WELLS, Charles B.

1980-0176

Film

The Wise Guy

6 of 8 ?

1926

1926-05-23

Frank Lloyd Productions Inc.

director/producer, Frank Lloyd; scenario, Ada McQuillin; photography, Norbert Brodin

Mary Astor, James Kirkwood

us

First National Pictures Inc.

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.

Silent with English intertitles

DRAMA

Libre

Under copyright.

no reproduction