The Impostor is a 1926 American silent crime film directed by Chester Withey and starring Evelyn Brent, Carroll Nye, and James Morrison.[1]
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| Directed by | Chester Withey |
| Written by | Ewart Adamson Clifford Howard |
| Produced by | Joseph P. Kennedy |
| Starring | Evelyn Brent Carroll Nye James Morrison |
| Cinematography | Roy H. Klaffki |
Production company | Gothic Productions |
| Distributed by | Film Booking Offices of America |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Plot
editAs described in a film magazine,[2] Dick Gilbert, a financially struggling young man, uses a family jewel as security on a loan to pay his gambling debts, only for the jewel to then be stolen by a notorious gambler. His sister Judith, a young society woman, disguises herself as a girl of the streets in order to obtain the jewel, which her father held as security for a Count. Exciting incidents occur with the sister pretending that she too is a thief. Learning that the jewel has been sold to a social climber, who sees a chance to increase her social standing with the Gilbert family, Judith, disguised as a thief, offers to impersonate herself at a garden party, at which the woman returns the jewel. After several interesting occurrences, Judith manages to get the jewel back in the safe in time. The brother, not knowing this, confesses. The thief De Mornoff breaks in attempting again to get the jewel, but Judith covers him with a gun. The brother is forgiven and Bruce Gordon, a newspaper reporter who has been following the girl thief for the story, becomes desirous of marrying her to make an honest woman of her and learns her identity. Judith tells the reporter that he still has a chance with her.
Cast
edit- Evelyn Brent as Judith Gilbert
- Carroll Nye as Dick Gilbert
- James Morrison as Bruce Gordon
- Frank Leigh as De Mornoff
- James Quinn as Lefty
- Carlton Griffin as Morris
- Edna Griffin as Ann Penn
References
edit- ^ Connelly p. 366
- ^ "New Pictures: The Impostor". Exhibitors Herald. 25 (07). Chicago, Illinois: Exhibitors Herald Company: 62. 1 May 1926. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Bibliography
edit- Connelly, Robert B. The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36, Volume 40, Issue 2. December Press, 1998. ISBN 0-913-20436-6
- Munden, Kenneth White. The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1. University of California Press, 1997. ISBN 9780520209695
External links
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- The Impostor at IMDb
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