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DAWSON CITY MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY

1979-0191

Film

The Exquisite Thief

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1919

1919-04-28

Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.

director, Tod Browning; scenario, Harvey Gates; Waldemar Young; photography, Alfred G. Gosden; assistant director, Fred Tyler; K.C. Stewart; props, E. Dyer

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

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Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.

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>

Silent with English intertitles

DRAMA

Libre

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

Under copyright until 31 December 2012.

Original copyright owner: Universal Film Manufacturing Company Inc.

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